RE: FLASH: EPS to Flash......

[John Foust]

At 01:44 PM 2/10/00 -0700, John Dowdell wrote:

>"EPS" is *Encapsulated* PostScript, not "Exchange PostScript", and was

>created by the makers of FreeHand to produce protected little packages of

>code. This meaning was subsequently corrupted, and nowadays many try to use

>it as an exchange format.


Makers of Freehand?  I thought EPS was defined by Adobe as part of the

PostScript spec.  I don't hink it was explained in this thread - the

reason it's evolved into an exchange format is that Illustrator

started saving EPS files that weren't much different than regular

Illustrator drawing files (except for the EPS wrapping) and they 

allowed you to re-import EPS files made in this way.  People were 

misled into thinking that Illustrator (or Freehand or Corel Draw 

or whatever) actually had the ability to import *any* EPS file.


- John



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