Best EPS format?

[algraph webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I work on a Mac and I'd like to know the best EPS format so it can be opened in any program that supports EPS's on a PC.

[Brian Pylant]

"algraph" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> I work on a Mac and I'd like to know the best EPS format so it can be opened in any program that supports EPS's on a PC.

I would recommend converting all your text to paths, and exporting as a
Quark EPS (the name is misleading; it's a vanilla-flavor EPS format that
seems to work well with every app I've tried it with).

If you're going to be placing these EPSs into a layout on a PC (as
opposed to opening as you mention above, which I infer to mean editing)
then you can skip the convert to paths step if you wish and just make
sure the fonts are embedded in the EPS - I'd still recommend using the
Quark EPS format.

brian

[algraph webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks Brian. I know that "Generic EPS" can't be opened for editing by either Mac or PC so why have it. I've used the Quark EPS before and I agree but you never know that's why I asked.

Thanks again

[Lex van de Oudeweetering]

Brian Pylant <nofreakinspam@nofreakinspam.com> wrote in
news:3FC26E85.4090409@nofreakinspam.com:

> "algraph" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

>> I work on a Mac and I'd like to know the best EPS format so it can be
>> opened in any program that supports EPS's on a PC.

>
> I would recommend converting all your text to paths, and exporting as
> a Quark EPS (the name is misleading; it's a vanilla-flavor EPS format
> that seems to work well with every app I've tried it with).
>
> If you're going to be placing these EPSs into a layout on a PC (as
> opposed to opening as you mention above, which I infer to mean
> editing) then you can skip the convert to paths step if you wish and
> just make sure the fonts are embedded in the EPS - I'd still recommend
> using the Quark EPS format.
>
> brian
>

My experience is Quark or Photoshop4/5 eps in RGB leaves the colours most
like it looks in Freehand. That is, when you open it in Photoshop. I have
no experience in placing it in dtp-programs like Quark en InDesign.
You will have to make all the colours RGB in Freehand if you use
Gradients, otherwise the colours of gradients will be bleached a bit, is
my experience.

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