any way to view eps files

[Fred Weiss]

Now... along the lines of what Fred said... it only seems to work with EPS created in Illy.

That is a distinct possibility. As I've posted on any number of occasions, if one wants an EPS that will work universally without any problems, then one should always open and resave them in Illustrator. That's what we've done with every Plotter Art™ EPS file in our collections. The same is true for every file published in the Vector Art Mega Collections and pretty much any legitimate clipart publisher I've ever run across.

When one gets their EPS art on ebay at prices one knows are so low that they can't be legitimate, one should expect some shortcuts have been taken and some deficiencies exist.

 

[Pat Whatley]

+1 for Extensis ....now if somebody will just figure out how to view .ai files....!

 

[Tim Aucoin]

now if somebody will just figure out how to view .ai files....!

Adobe Bridge? Seems to work fine for .ai files (at least for me)!!

 

[G-Artist]

XnView is another great program.

After reading the threads I decided to try and catalog my art files and build PDF catalogs with it.

The program reads EPS, AI and CDR and countless others.

Here's a screen shot of a file folder I opened. Kinda nifty.

 

[tanneji]

uhh yeah no eps in 7

 

[watchdaride]

How about making a backup of files and coverting them to jpg. Does any one know of a fast software to convert eps/ai to jpg ?

 

[Fred Weiss]

How about making a backup of files and coverting them to jpg. Does any one know of a fast software to convert eps/ai to jpg ?

Photoshop. Create an Action to open, size uniformly, and save. Then use it to process batches of files at a time.

 

[G-Artist]

We only have AI CS4 to open and preview client files and save them out to use in CD (no one here is versed enough in AI to actually use it).

Is there an Illustrator script (free) that will open AI files and resave them with a preview header or maybe convert them to EPS and save? If so, wher can I find that puppy?

I have about 150 files that are not viewable except by importing into AI one at a time and that is just too much like work.

Thanks.

 

[ChiknNutz]

Probably little known and not too mainstream, but with CoCut from Eurosystems they provide a program called Job Manager 6. It is a lot like these others mentioned, but does a very good job of many file types including: EPS, AI, CDR, etc. all in one package. Although it craps out on a few files here and there, but for the most part it does a great job. I don't know if they provide it any other way other than with CoCut, but it actually works pretty darn well.