EPS Thumbnail View?

[Tony]

Hi All,

We've got a few folders with images in various formats. When I switch to
thumbnail view, I can see the thumbs for images in each format except EPS.
Does anyone know if there is a setting I'm missing or if MS (or a third
party) offers a plug-in that will allow EPS thumbnails to display?

Thanks & Ciao,

Tony

 

[David Candy]

XP and MS don't. Though office can if there is a preview stored in the file. In the past I've used Word's File Open dialog as a graphic manager. If using a file open always right click not double. I've not used it with EPS but have with CDR.

 

[Tony]

Hi David,

Thanks for the info. I'm using PhotoShop and have tried to save with a
preview according to the Help instructions, but to no avail. I also tried
the way you suggested via Word and a line of code exists that looks to me
like a preview is stored with the image:

%AI3_DocumentPreview: PC_ColorTIFF

But still no luck. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Tony


XP and MS don't. Though office can if there is a preview stored in the file.
In the past I've used Word's File Open dialog as a graphic manager. If using
a file open always right click not double. I've not used it with EPS but
have with CDR.

 

[David Candy]

You might need to install the eps filter in word. Ask adobe if they have a thumbnail viewer for XP. They might want you to use their pathetic thing they offered with the new version or acrobat reader. That would do it I'd imagine.

 

[Tony]

Hi David,

I did some looking around on Adobe's member's only support site and it looks
like any EPS file saved with a version of PhotoShop (which we're using)
later than 7.0 has this issue. One of the people posting to that thread
created a reg hack, but I couldn't get it to work. It appears that there
are a lot of people who miss this functionality & are upset that Adobe's not
addressing the issue. It sounds like MS is pointing the finger at Adobe &
vice versa.

So, I now throw my hands into the air. It's not that a big deal, anyway.

Thanks again for your suggestions.

Ciao,

Tony


You might need to install the eps filter in word. Ask adobe if they have a
thumbnail viewer for XP. They might want you to use their pathetic thing
they offered with the new version or acrobat reader. That would do it I'd
imagine.

 

[David Candy]

I loathe adobe. I'll say that again, I loathe adobe. I could say this all day.

Anyway did you look at this piece of adobe crap
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html

It's free. I looked at it a while ago and was underwhelmed. Wondering what, if anything, it could do that explorer couldn't. Maybe show eps thumbnails is one thing?

Anyway I hate adobe. What's really frightening is that I'm comfortabe in acrobat reader (I read a lot of technical and history books in this format). Now that I don't let integrate with IE it doesn't crash (you try and find your place in a 600 page book, esp as I may have 3 open and up to 30 html book length pages open - I read one by one till I finish so some may be open for a week or two.) Netscape 2 used to do this to me as well. My web site contains anti netscape code as revenge.