anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer? (IrfanView doesnt work!)

[ship]

Hi

- Can anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer (for WinXP)?

We use Photoshop quite a lot but we need something free
for one of our staff and we cant afford to lash out on an
entire copy of Photoshop just to view a few images!

I tried downloading IrfanView (plus it's plugins) which seemed to get
good reviews
around the place including 14M downloads on download.com, but it
couldnt
read the first 3 EPS images I tried (even though PhotoShop can!!)

P.S.
- We don't want anything time-bombed.
- And to be honest I'd prefer NOT to let this member of staff have the
ability
to edit images IN ANY WAY - so it would be better to JUST have a viewer
rather than a bid of software that edits as well...

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

 

[SpaceGirl]

Hi

- Can anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer (for WinXP)?

We use Photoshop quite a lot but we need something free
for one of our staff and we cant afford to lash out on an
entire copy of Photoshop just to view a few images!

I tried downloading IrfanView (plus it's plugins) which seemed to get
good reviews
around the place including 14M downloads on download.com, but it
couldnt
read the first 3 EPS images I tried (even though PhotoShop can!!)

P.S.
- We don't want anything time-bombed.
- And to be honest I'd prefer NOT to let this member of staff have the
ability
to edit images IN ANY WAY - so it would be better to JUST have a viewer
rather than a bid of software that edits as well...

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

Adobe Acrobat Reader may read EPS...

 

[Brian Wakem]

Hi

- Can anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer (for WinXP)?

We use Photoshop quite a lot but we need something free
for one of our staff and we cant afford to lash out on an
entire copy of Photoshop just to view a few images!

I tried downloading IrfanView (plus it's plugins) which seemed to get
good reviews
around the place including 14M downloads on download.com, but it
couldnt
read the first 3 EPS images I tried (even though PhotoShop can!!)

P.S.
- We don't want anything time-bombed.
- And to be honest I'd prefer NOT to let this member of staff have the
ability
to edit images IN ANY WAY - so it would be better to JUST have a viewer
rather than a bid of software that edits as well...

With thanks

GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/

 

[K3]

Hi

- Can anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer (for WinXP)?

We use Photoshop quite a lot but we need something free
for one of our staff and we cant afford to lash out on an
entire copy of Photoshop just to view a few images!

I tried downloading IrfanView (plus it's plugins) which seemed to get
good reviews
around the place including 14M downloads on download.com, but it
couldnt
read the first 3 EPS images I tried (even though PhotoShop can!!)

P.S.
- We don't want anything time-bombed.
- And to be honest I'd prefer NOT to let this member of staff have the
ability
to edit images IN ANY WAY - so it would be better to JUST have a
viewer rather than a bid of software that edits as well...

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

My favorite Image Viewer is FuturixImager 5.7.2

http://www.futurix.co.uk/
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4931.html

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[ship]

Adobe Acrobat Reader may read EPS...

Nope sorry it doesnt! (Latest version)

And neither does The GIMP!
(at least it cant open the EPS files I've got - whereas Photoshop 6
can...)

Ship

 

[ship]

My favorite Image Viewer is FuturixImager 5.7.2

http://www.futurix.co.uk/
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4931.html

No, gad-damn-it - that doesn't work EITHER
This is most frustating!
My poor old PC's registry is going to be a right mess of installed &
un-installed
applications. (Deep sigh)

Any other suggestions?


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

 

[ship]

P.S.
I believe the EPS files in question are "Adobe Post Script EPSF-3.0" ??
And were created by Adobe Photoshop v8.0

But it seems nothing else can open them!

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

- Can anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer (for WinXP)?

We use Photoshop quite a lot but we need something free
for one of our staff and we cant afford to lash out on an
entire copy of Photoshop just to view a few images!

I tried downloading IrfanView (plus it's plugins) which seemed
to get good reviews around the place including 14M downloads
on download.com, but it couldnt read the first 3 EPS images I
tried (even though PhotoShop can!!)

at first, EPS is a vector format. So your intention using
(bitmap) picture viewer leads you to the wrong direction.
(Sometimes a little preview bitmap is included into EPS
file, but mostly really small and not that helpful.)

Photoshop does a conversion to bitmap (you are asked for
image dimensions on opening), so I wouldn't call it "native"
EPS support.

The best you can get at the moment is the GhostScript/GSview
combimnation, I think (GSview is the desktop app to the
GhostScript command line converter).

http://www.ghostscript.com/

Hopefully soon apps like Inkscape or alike add simple (for the
usage) EPS support. Scribus seems to be able to import EPS, I
haven't tried.

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

P.S.
I believe the EPS files in question are "Adobe Post Script?
EPSF-3.0" ? And were created by Adobe Photoshop v8.0

you created EPS with Photoshop? Surely, bitmap images can be
embedded within EPS, so Photoshop can export to EPS, but that's
not usefull for any reason. Maybe you should think about the
format, you store your files in.

Anyway, Ghostscript/GSview should do the job.

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

- Can anyone recommend a free EPS image viewer (for WinXP)?

Ghostscript with Ghostview:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost

I tried downloading IrfanView (plus it's plugins) which seemed to get
good reviews
around the place including 14M downloads on download.com, but it
couldnt
read the first 3 EPS images I tried (even though PhotoShop can!!)

IrfanView only shows embedded non-vector preview (if any). Most *.eps
files only contain vector data. The task of rendering such data is
not done by picture viewers but by a specific rendering engine like
the one found inside Ghostscript.

HTH.
BeAr

 

[rich]

I believe the EPS files in question are "Adobe Post Script EPSF-3.0" ??
And were created by Adobe Photoshop v8.0

But it seems nothing else can open them!

I do not know of any freeware which will open a .eps file.
however AFAIK the .eps file should contain a preview image which can be
extracted and viewed.
the quality depends on the options used when the file was created and might
be b&w (1 bit) or colour (8 bit)

Try this utility, epstool.exe from

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm

it is a command line app. open a cmd window and do a epstool --help to see
all the switches
or
epstool -v myimage.eps myimage.tiff (change file names accordingly)

to extract a viewable image.

 

[rich]

I do not know of any freeware which will open a .eps file.

What I said is of course not strictly correct -

In theory Ghostview together with Ghostscript *should* be able to view an
..eps file.
I find that the best I ever achieve is a gray-scale image.
You can get Ghostview + Ghost script if you follw the links at

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

The same applies to Gimp, if Ghostscript is installed and the gswin32c.exe
file copied from Ghostscript to the Gimp "bin" folder Gimp *might* open a
..eps file. Best I have achieved is a partial, gray-scale image.

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

In theory Ghostview together with Ghostscript *should* be able
to view an .eps file.
I find that the best I ever achieve is a gray-scale image.
You can get Ghostview + Ghost script if you follw the links at

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

I just tried the scenario, saved a .jpg in Photoshop to .eps, and
opened this in GSview. Colored. Option set to "EPS Clip" and I also
see the full image ;-) No problem, not even as slow as I expected.

But the same file works in IrfanView and XnView as well with no
problem. I don't have a clue, what the original poster has done
to his images...

Regards,
Thorsten