colorizing grayscale image

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

EPS files can't be colorized in any layout app. EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript. this means it contains all the data and it can't be modified in your layout app. This was a good thing in the days of Pagemaker and Quark as these apps could not screw up the file.

[Bob Levine]

You're wrong, Buko. PM certainly had that ability and I'm pretty sure
Quark has/had it.

That said, it's nothing but a kludge that could cause some real problems
printing and is a feature in those programs best left unused.

Bob

[Richard_Sohanchyk@adobeforums.com]

When you say PM or QX had the ability I assume you mean to a bw eps file, certainly not to a cmyk image. Been a lot of years. It's probably 15 years since I used PM regularly. Hard to believe. When did ID1 come out? Got to be 5 years that ID has been production worthy.

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

InDesign *can* colourize any kind of EPS files, although not in the same way it can colourize grayscale tiffs. Just fill the image frame with a colour and set the image itself to the fill mode "luminance".

[Bob Levine]

Yes, B&W and grayscale only. As for production worthy, many folks would
give that honor to ID 2.0 released in January of 2002. It think the real
attention getter was CS.

Bob

[Nini Tjäder]

As for PM and QXP as far as I remember the only images that could be colorized were 1-bit tiffs (greyscale) in both apps.