EPS Preview in Sequoia

Thank you for suggesting a solution. I’ll try it and post a note here, if it works in Sequoia.

Unfortunately I now have to wait for my Mac to be fixed by a third party. Why not Apple? Because Apple said that 5 years is the expected lifespan of their hard disks, so if I need to replace a 2019 hard disk because it failed, they won’t do it. *sigh* I’ve been using Macs since the SE, and it didn’t use to be this hard to upgrade. (I really miss Tekserve.) And. . . I still don’t know if I saved all the critical EPS files.

The problem there is Getty and the others are not providing vector images. Even where it says vector.

If they were vector, then why are they 300 dpi? Why is there more than one purchase size? The answer is, they're lying. The (cough!) vector images are raster.

But are you pulling apart raster or vector shapes? If there's any transparency to the image at all, it's raster. EPS does not support transparency. Any such image that started out as vector WILL be turned into raster when saved as an EPS.

This is simply not true at all. I'm not sure you have any idea what you're doing after some of these posts. I download vector files all day long full of shapes and meshes and shaders and they're all made up of points IE VECTORS

That is obviously correct. Never used iStock before. The bananas also have no transparencies, so even as an EPS, it will remain vector.

Our clients insisted everything we used came from Getty (they would tell us which file to pick up, or they'd send it).

Check Getty's supposed vector page:

Then click on any item. Doesn't matter which one. Your choices are always four price points. All described as 300 dpi, despite supposedly being vector.

If they were truly vector, there would be no need for four price points. No matter which one you purchase, they are always raster.

And yes, I goofed. As long as there are no transparencies of any kind in the artwork, it will remain vector.

dangerboydesign wrote:

The point of this thread was to see if anyone had found a new work around.

That didn't seem to be the point at all. 99% of the posts were arguments about whether .eps files should be supported.

dangerboydesign wrote:

Wow, who hurt you, bro?

People who wage pointless battles on the internet for years.

Have you ever gotten a debilitating virus from an EPS file?

You see? This is my point. This thread has gone on for way too long. This thread was even started years too late.

You are getting confused over the replies. I never said anything about viruses in EPS files. I have no problem with EPS files. I can do absolutely anything I want with them, including viewing them in previews if I want. 😄

Have you ever even used an EPS file?

When macOS Ventura first came out, I actually wrote a free EPS viewing/previewing tool for people to use to help them convert their EPS files while they still could. But still, many people never got the memo and continued on as if nothing would ever change. Then when they installed yet another new, radically changed operating system, they were upset at all the changes.

Why is your side of the argument always so aggressive?

Because I get tired of seeing the same, utterly pointless posts year, after year, after year.

I don't want my Mac OS to do anything other than give me a wee little Quicklook thumbnail preview of my files.

How do you expect that to happen? The same kinds of licensing difficulties that caused Apple to remove it will also prevent anyone else from making such a wee little tool. I'll be happy to do it for you if you want, but I guarantee that you would never describe my fee as "wee little".

Or allow me to do the Illustrator.qlgenerator work-around that the last OS seemed to be OK with.

You spend too much time on the internet. That hack never worked.

Trust me, I know that Apple won't fix this. This is the company that took headphone jacks off their iPhones to sell more ear buds. They will never backstep on this. The point of this thread was to see if anyone had found a new work around. There are smart people out there who may have.

There are plenty of smart people. But the smartest people went into law, not computer science. Those people wrote some very clever legal contracts and licenses specifically designed to cause this exact problem.

There is an easy solution. You just need to download Xcode, Ghostscript, and write yourself an app with a modern Quicklook preview plugin.

And that’s your problem to deal with, not Apple’s. Both Apple and Microsoft have dropped native support for .EPS files. You’re beating a dead horse now. EPS preview thumbnails are NOT coming back to the Preview app.