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I have heard very good words about the eps format from a vector-format nerd (he reads file format specifikation books because its fun). I would love to here mor
by dosshell 5y ago
I have heard very good words about the eps format from a vector-format nerd (he reads file format specifikation books because its fun). I would love to here more opinions about eps from other developers.
How does eps really compare with the other formats mentioned above?
- IshKebab 5y agoI can't imagine those good words ever came from anyone that has actually used it.
- andybak 5y agoI've been avoiding EPS like the plague for several decades. Unless something has changed since I last looked it would be well below SVG on my preferred format list.
- heleninboodler 5y agoEPS is just PostScript that's designed to be more embeddable. It's a PostScript program that contains some metadata like a preview image (so you can display a thumbnail when embedding it even if you don't have a PS interpreter) and a bounding box (since PS has an arbitrary coordinate system, in order to represent an embedded document without actually interpreting it, you need to know the bounds of what it's going to draw). The big problem with PS, EPS and Flash as simple graphics formats is that they're all turing complete and you can author documents that will never terminate. When importing EPS, Illustrator used to have a timeout and would fail if the render didn't complete in a couple minutes. I assume it still does, but haven't tried it in years.
- andybak 5y agoI was under the impression that EPS didn't support the full Postscript language - merely the declarative parts. I could be wrong there.