How to fix .Ai.EPS files preview issue on Sonoma ?

Do these apps not open and place EPS files?

They do, but they no longer show a preview of the image. Not even in the Open dialogue box of the app that wrote the EPS to start with.

Using the Disney image again as an example, I applied the path on the image with the gray background as a clipping path and made sure to save the EPS with an icon preview.

You still get nothing in Photoshop's own Open box - on a file I just saved!

Kurt Lang wrote:

It was only relatively recently they stopped showing previews of EPS files. Even their own.

It sounds like they were just relying on Apple's built-in preview. Then, when that went away, they either didn't notice or didn't care.

If these file types can deliver malware, why disable Preview? Does Preview allow the malware to unpack itself?

This really sucks because our entire workflow revolves around a closed server where the art team shares these eps files, that they build from scratch, to our team to incorporate into our technical books. Preview allowed for us to quickly identify which files we wanted to drop into InDesign to layout.

This is why people don't upgrade to the latest OS...

Any app that can preview or read an .eps file can inadvertently launch malware. An EPS is encapsulated data. The only way to display or preview what's in it is to read the contents. Doing that also means the OS or app will read and launch any embedded malware.

Has anybody discovered a fix/solution for how to preview eps files in Sonoma while using t5he MAC File Find? HELP, Please and advance Thank You.

We've brought only one online. Others are boxed. Malware? email has more ever-present danger than an eps. This is another proprietary move.

have bought more MacPros and Studio, i'm hurting. Done with MAC and while not please with WIN file find, search - Adobe CC as well as "other" utilities run fine "there". I'm getting ready to sell off what have become Library Locking Devices that support enterprise assets.

Kurt, so sorry to correct you, but you are way out thinking that eps is no longer valid, or is not necessary anymore. It is so totally NOT obsolete. Bit arrogant that! Designers alike use these files often. They are vector files not raster files and give a much better resolution in print, or on screen. Using an Adobe Photoshop file for instance to gain the transparent background needed is only a bodge. EPS will b around for some time to come unless apps like Adobe Illustrator sort a different file format, but keeps the clean vector that Illustrator produces, WITH a preview icon. . . but if they aint listening . . . . .

I clicked on this message string to look for a fix, as I did for Ventura OS. As you espouse your ivory tower perspective on the virtuosity (or lack thereof) of eps files, there are those of us who live in the real world and get paid to be productive. My workflow includes thousands upon thousands of clean, vector eps files. Some we have been using for upward of 20 years and some I made yesterday. And in the real world we know the differences between eps files and ai files and pdf files, and we know very specifically how and when to use the various file formats. And if we have to place a logo into our layout, and there are 40 versions of that client's logo, we need to see what we are placing or our workflow is stalled without mercy. I live in the print as well as digital world. Can't use svg files for print (duh). Can't use psd files for large format print since we generally don't design 6-foot tall logos.

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SMRoberts wrote:

there are those of us who live in the real world and get paid to be productive.

So why are you rushing to apply the latest OS upgrade and then worrying about the changes afterwards? Why not ensure you have all of the information, software, and support you need to be productive before you apply the upgrade?

My workflow includes thousands upon thousands of clean, vector eps files.

So convert them to PDF. Should take about 4 minutes.

Some we have been using for upward of 20 years and some I made yesterday.

What are you using to create these EPS files? And why doesn't said app support EPS previews?

Can't use svg files for print (duh).

Why not? There isn't anything special about how a drawing is saved to disk. A vector file is nothing more than a set of drawing instructions. That's fundamentally different than raster, but fundamentally identical to any other vector data.

Can't use psd files for large format print since we generally don't design 6-foot tall logos.

Don't know what this means at all.

I agree 100% with the well positioned comments of SMRoberts - Thank you.

Go forward changes can be made. BUT why render as useless, an existing library of Assets - aka: image files such as EPS. Note the use of the word "asset" - that's exactly what these image files are to our stock-in-trade - items of value, we rely on and use these.

We are well invested in Apple Tech - but now we have some technology just purchased - that now sits, unused, only because eps is removed from the workflow.

Yes, by not switching "up" to the new OS we are getting caught in a circular problem of Browser, PS, ID, AI, and other utilities NOT able to upgrade and therefore running into a range of incompatibilities - that pinch other operators in the Creative & Production environment.

Note to Apple: If eps files are capable of having "bad stuff" – let us, the user, be free to manage our risk.

Go ahead shut down from today forward as a format to "save". BUT please give back the ability to "see" and open these 'saved' assets from our asset library.

Kurt - we all have files that we've created, and have as assets - how do you propose we continue to scan those using file-find to visually see which we want? Your comments on "from today forward" are not the issue - past saved files are. Can you help?

BrianWAM wrote:

BUT why render as useless, an existing library of Assets - aka: image files such as EPS.

This is something that has bothered me for the past couple of years that this has been an "issue". Why are all of these print professionals who rely on EPS also exclusively using Apple Preview for their prepress needs? Don't they have Photoshop, or Illustrator, or InDesign? Something? Do these apps not open and place EPS files? This is not a rhetorical question.

Go ahead shut down from today forward as a format to "save". BUT please give back the ability to "see" and open these 'saved' assets from our asset library.

As far as I know, Apple software has never been able to save in EPS format. It has always been read-only. Maybe back in pre-Mac OS X days it could convert PICT to EPS maybe.

And none of this changes the fact that anyone can write an EPS preview tool at any time. You want me to do it? I'll do it for you. Just e-mail me and I'll tell you where to wire the money for it.

Kurt Lang wrote:

You still get nothing in Photoshop's own Open box - on a file I just saved!

Typically it is the responsibility of an app that opens and/or saves a file to provide the preview. If Photoshop already has the logic to open an EPS view, then, by definition, it has the ability to provide a preview too.

It would be much more effort for me to do it. I would have to write the EPS parser and then display it. Maybe I could rely on Ghostscript, maybe not. Licensing for Ghostscript is really funky. But I could do it. I would just need someone to pay for the work as I would have to put other projects on hold.

If Photoshop already has the logic to open an EPS view, then, by definition, it has the ability to provide a preview too.

Yes, it should. And for many years - decades - it did. It was only relatively recently they stopped showing previews of EPS files. Even their own.

Hi LJJX

I put my brand new MACbook Pro with lots of memory and a 2TB dive back into the box. And I wait. I cannot afford the issue of losing so many Assets, aka my eps files, – so i am stuck on an older OS with my 'other' Macbook Pro. IF YOU FIND something anywhere - please post, share....