eps files from Illustrator

[Christina Thiele]

I finally found a reference that I wanted to add to Tom's explanation
below. It's a pretty good little document entitled `Graphics for
Inclusion in Electronic Documents', by Ian Hutchinson. It can be found
at:

    http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/elec_fig/

The author invites additions, emendations, and flat-out corrections
;-) It's a handy doc. to have around. I'm sure we all have had our
`moments' with graphics files, esp. those which come from `elsewhere'
...

Ch.

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Tom Kacvinsky writes:
>
> For the lists edification, the problem was an embedded TIFF
> (or WMF) preview.  There are ways of telling Illustrator to
> not embedded a preview using the EPS save dailog box option,
> but there are times when an author/editor/whomever doesn't
> follow directions and it is up to the technical people to get
> rid of the preview.  Siepe Krooneberg sent me the seeds of
> a perl script that does the stripping of an embedded preview,
> and I fleshed it out into something I can use at my day job.
> I sent a bit of that script to Penny to suit her needs...
>
> Tom
>
> On 2003/09/09 at 14:42, Penny <penny at bookcomp.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem:
> >
> > We (Bookcomp, Inc.) cannot print from DVI window if  a page contains
> > an eps file that was created in Illustrator. If I open this eps file
> > in Corel and resave it, it will print out just fine.
> >
> > Also if I create a postscript file and then a PDF file, the PDF file
> > prints fine too.
> >
> > Anyone have a quick fix for this, before I have to open over 300
> > pieces of artwork and resave them.
> >
> > Thanks Penny
> >
>