'Edit original' blues

[magicgenie@adobeforums.com]

In Indesign CS2 I have one image selected and in the links pallette I hit edit original and it opens in Illustrator, grrrrr...

Is there any way in Indesign that I can control which program opens files, it does have a .eps extension, i guess this is the problem, any clues?

Thanks for reading
Alex
Dubai

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

InDesign does not open the files. It just tells your operating system to open the files. Which application is used to do that is entirely controlled by your finder / explorer (thank you for inlcuding all your relevant system info in your request).
Tell your finder / explorer to open that file with the requested application and everyone will be happy.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

do a get info on file in question.

choose app you want the file to open in.

click change all if you want all eps files to open in Photoshop.

close get info window.

[AlFerrari]

Gerald,

1. This is the InDesign Macintosh Forum. Why not assume that the OP is on a mac?

2. What if both the .innd file and the linked eps were from a windows machine but were now being worked on a mac?

Al Ferrari

[magicgenie@adobeforums.com]

Many thanks guys.
A

[Bob Levine]

> 1. This is the InDesign Macintosh Forum. Why not assume that the OP is on a mac?

Folks do walk through the wrong door once in a while. <g>

> 2. What if both the .innd file and the linked eps were from a windows machine but were now being worked on a mac?

Wouldn't matter. It's still and operating system thing. If I sent you my
Wiindows files and I had EPS associated with Photoshop and you had it
associated with Illustrator, edit original would open them in Illy on
your Mac.

Bob

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

1. This is the InDesign Macintosh Forum. Why not assume that the OP is
on a mac? Folks do walk through the wrong door once in a while. <g>




Truth is: I am so used to write on a mixed forum that I myself forgot that this here is a mac-forum. apologies and thanks, bob :)

[Anne-Marie Concepcion]

Interestingly, I just posted detailed instrux for Mac/Windows about "fixing' Edit Original problems in InDesign, including a few tips

<http://indesignsecrets.com/make-edit-original-use-the-right-program.php>

AM

[AlFerrari]

Wouldn't matter. It's still and operating system thing. If I sent you
my Wiindows files and I had EPS associated with Photoshop and you had
it
associated with Illustrator, edit original would open them in Illy on
your Mac.





Hmm...

Bob,

I am on Mac 10.3.9, with IDCS. I make a new doc in Indy, and place a Photoshop eps and an Illustrator eps. I select the one from Photoshop in the Links palette and request edit original from the fly out menu and, (you guessed it), Photoshop launches. Now I do the same with the one from Illustrator and, (are you ready for this?), Illustrator launches. But these are legacy OS 9 eps files created in the corresponding applications, and they still have the old type and creator info in the resource fork. So I make a totally new PhotoshopCS eps and a totally new IllustratorCS eps. These are OS X files with no resource fork (?). I repeat the test in IDCS and get the same behavior. The type and creator info is still available to the system.

In my 2. question in #3 (don't get confused now,) I asked about bringing PC files to the Mac to find out if the Mac would see any creator info in addition to the extension. I would still like to know.

Al Ferrari

[Peter_Truskier@adobeforums.com]

Al,

I believe that the newly-created (Mac OS X) files you made do, in fact, have a Type and Creator which explains the behavior you are seeing.

If a PC user were to send you EPS files, they would not have Type and Creator metadata, so I'm betting both Illustrator and Photoshop EPS files would open in the same app, and only the OS knows what it would be...

[AlFerrari]

Peter,

That's what I thought. Thanks,

Al

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

I found this on the Apple-Developr Site:

For individual document files (whether specified by a file-system reference or a URL with scheme file), the criteria are as follows:

If the user has specified an explicit binding for the document (or for the entire document type to which it belongs), the preferred application is the one the user has specified.
If the document has a filename extension, find all applications in the Launch Services database that claim to accept documents with that extension.
If the document carries a four-character file type (or if one has been specified as a parameter), find all applications that claim to accept files of that type.
If more than one application has been found as a result of steps 2–3, apply the following criteria in the order shown:
If the document carries a four-character creator signature (or if one has been specified as a parameter), give preference to any application that claims to accept documents with that signature (typically the application to which the signature belongs).
Give preference to native OS X applications over those that run in the Classic emulation environment.
Give preference to applications residing on the boot volume over those residing on other file-system volumes.
Give preference to applications residing on a local volume over those residing on a remote volume.
If two or more versions of the same application have been found, give preference to the one with the latest version number.
If two or more candidate applications remain after all of the foregoing criteria have been applied, Launch Services chooses one of the remaining applications in an unspecified manner.

It is a lot more complicated than simply looking for an extension of tpe/creator but a combination of them all...

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, Gerald. That explains a lot!

Do you happen to have a link to that you could post?

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

Steve, this should do (i hope)
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/LaunchServicesConcepts/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000999>

[AlFerrari]

Gerald,

Good work!

Al

[atarifreak@adobeforums.com]

I always thought this was a common glitch with PCs myself, all my Photoshop eps' open in Illustrator unless i tell them otherwise, i guessed because it associates the prefix '.eps' with Illustrator rather than Photoshop.

[Martin Gouw]

Also a good reason to use .ai and .ps ?

[jon_boy_@adobeforums.com]

I am using a Mac with 10.4.6 with Adobe CS2. I can save an EPS from Photoshop and an EPS from Illustrator, place them both in InDesign, and they DO NOT open with the correct application when using the Edit Original command. They will either both open with Photoshop or both with Illustrator, depending on how the file associations are set in the Finder. I thought the OS was supposed to look at not just the extension, but also the creator.
How can I make the files open in the application that created them?

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Save the files as native files.

Forget EPS.

[jon_boy_@adobeforums.com]

Hmm. I visit two forums on the same subject, with the same question, hoping to get a wider range of reponses. And wouldn't you know it, I get the same ridiculous response from Buko in both places. I refuse to get into it here, but if anyone else has any legitimate responses, please feel free to respond here or the other thread at:
<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bbfbea4>