Image formats - eps

[vodoo]

Someone has created a new logo for me. Now the person wants to know what format I need. Says that there are TWO different formats called *.eps, one created on the Mac which is vectorized and another one from Photoshop being rasterized.

I want to be able to scale the logo and to use it for letterheads. I will have to scale it for webpages as well.

I'm on openSUSE 11.1 using gimp. What will I be able to read in?

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by vodoo

I'm on openSUSE 11.1 using gimp. What will I be able to read in?

A quick search on google gave these two hits

• Gimp File Formats
• GIMP supported image formats

Don't forget, ... google search is your friend

[vodoo]

Thank you, oldcpu

I was confused because there seem to be two different formats called *.eps, depending on whether they are produced on a Mac or a Windows PC. As it turned out in the meantime gimp will happily read both

[cjcox]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:26 +0000, vodoo wrote:
> Thank you, oldcpu
>
> I was confused because there seem to be two different formats called
> *.eps, depending on whether they are produced on a Mac or a Windows PC.
> As it turned out in the meantime gimp will happily read both

Actually, it's VERY likely there is eps and there's Adobe Illustrator
eps which has some AI cruft surrounding the actual eps data. This
could include a rasterized preview blob. Using a good editor, you
can usually edit out the junk and make a more pure eps file.

(if that matters)

[vodoo]

That explains it. (No more 'VERY likely' but 'confirmed' now). Thanks.

P.S.: Calling a non compliant format *.eps should be punished by law.