eps file format

[latebloomerLB]

Office XP was pre-installed on my computer when it was purchased. According
to 'Graphics file formats & filters, Working with Graphics and objects' under
Assistance for Microsoft Office Online, a graphics filter must be installed
to insert an .eps file into a publication. Instructions do not, however,
include how to accomplish this when the software was pre-installed and no
CD-Rom is available.
Where do I get the filter? How do I install it given these circumstances?

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

LB what makes you think the filter is not installed???

If it is because the EPS is not displaying, that is because the EPS does not
have a low resolution TIF file within the EPS file.
If it is because the EPS is not printing, that is because you are not
printing to a Postscript printer.

If you do not have the OEM CAB Files on your hard drive or you do not have
the CD, you don't have a legal copy and go back to the supplier of your
computer and demand a legal copy.

 

[latebloomerLB]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. My interest is in converting a publisher or Word
file into an .eps format in order to make it usable by a commercial printer.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. My interest is in converting a publisher or Word
file into an .eps format in order to make it usable by a commercial printer.

:

Have you asked your printer what he/she wants? The possibilities,
depending on what you want printed:
Native File
PDF
PS file - sepped or composite
EPS
JPG
TIF
Hard Copy
Some other choice

If you want to impress your date and make her think you are special,
would you take her to a movie if you didn't know what genre she is
likely to enjoy?

Mike

 

[latebloomerLB]

Yes--
The printer needs a 'vector' file which, i understand, is what .eps is.

 

[Odysseus]

Yes--
The printer needs a 'vector' file which, i understand, is what .eps is.

An EPSF can contain vector graphics, raster images, or both. Of the
above formats JPEG and TIFF are raster-only and therefore unsuitable;
hard-copy generally has to be scanned, so should be considered raster as
well.

I've often got useable results by going the PostScript-to-PDF route
using Acrobat Distiller, and from there a number of workflows that
preserve vector-art are possible: Acrobat can export PDF pages in EPS
format, recent versions of Adobe Illustrator or the like can open them
(although font problems often arise), and some page-layout programs can
import & print them.