Timeline for Pros and cons to .AI vs. .EPS file formats in 2017?
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| Feb 20, 2019 at 16:37 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | Summarize the state of affairs at present into an answer, maybe? | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 6:04 | comment | added | joojaa | Long comment threads will auto delete over time @SteveRindsberg | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 2:17 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | Let's let the commentary speak to what's current now (and in the future) then. | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | joojaa | @SteveRindsberg its not that i cant change its that it invalidates the question | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | If you're able to change the original question, perhaps remove the "2017" reference. And we're probably stumbling over Mac vs PC here. EPS+Windows Office has been crippled for a long time (since 2002 for some of the apps) and has been totally disabled in Office 365/2016, but MS has left things alone in Mac Office, so nothing's changed there. Here's the official MS take on this: support.office.com/en-us/article/… | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 5:49 | comment | added | joojaa | @SteveRindsberg well in this case the question stays that its interested in year 2017. So its valid for the question. In either case answers will become outdated over time. It happens. Also this still works if you have an extension. I suspect its adobe acrobat that adds this. So if you use trough distiller it still works. Which also incidentally has support for a postscript extension for transparency which only works in distiller, ghostview also has a extension but its not the same. So how do you suggest i change both the answer and question to reflect this? | |
| Feb 17, 2019 at 21:44 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | OK fair enough if you're talking to people who're working in 2017. If you assume that this thread will be referred to by people living in the present, what was or wasn't the case in 2017 is not especially relevant. | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 18:02 | comment | added | joojaa | @SteveRindsberg yes but the question states about 2017. You cant just complain about a post that was factual back in the day. I can not know what microdoft intends or not intends to do. | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 17:35 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | Unfortunately, we're not in 2017 any longer. And MS wasn't reacting to a bug so much as a security hole that specially formatted EPS could attack. Given time, budget and motivation, I'm sure they could have fixed that, but there'd be very little business case for putting resources into EPS when so few people use it. And true, they could have just passed the EPS to the printer as God and Warnock intended, but MS had already committed to interpreting the EPS locally, which made sense for the majority of Office users. Overriding all that took so many reg changes that they gave it up. | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 17:16 | comment | added | joojaa | @SteveRindsberg yes today true. But back in 2017 all the thousands of computers near me could still do this for legacy reasons. But they didnt kill the eps support exactly because of a bug. I mean they could have just passed the image to the printer. | |
| Feb 16, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | Previously, yes. Not any longer; MS has totally disabled EPS and the registry entries that used to allow it. If you rely on EPS in Office and it's still working, you may want to turn off Office updates, lest one of them disable EPS irrevocably. | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 16:30 | comment | added | joojaa | @SteveRindsberg Yes i know. But it is for legacy reasons frequently enabled. | |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 16:23 | comment | added | Steve Rindsberg | EPS + MS Office applications is dead. First, MS changed EPS import to convert EPS to EMF on the fly (there went the programmability advantage). Then, when that opened a security hole) MS banned it altogether. For a while there were registry keys you could flip to force "per spec" EPS imports, and later, keys you could flip to force the apps to accept EPS at all, now that's all gone. No EPS Allowed is the rule. IIRC, if you keep your software updated, you've enforced this rule in Office versions as old as 2010. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 6:18 | history | edited | joojaa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2017 at 6:08 | history | answered | joojaa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |