Image formats - eps

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?

A quick search on google gave these two hits

Don’t forget, … google search is your friend :slight_smile:

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 :wink:

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 :wink:

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)

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

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