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Please give us back the ability to save .EPS files

David Larrew
Booster
The only thing I miss about PlotMaker is the ability to save-out .EPS (encapsulated postscript) files.

.EPS is a scale-able raster image format that most image-editing companies use as a "standard" format.

Our marketing department requires .EPS format and currently the only way to get something usable is to save a .PDF and use Acrobat (full-license) to convert.

Come on Graphisoft... Give us back this ability!
David Larrew, AIA, GDLA, GSRC

Architectural Technology Specialist

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Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
Not to be critical but asking for EPS is like asking for DXF instead of DWG. PDF is the heir of EPS, any program that used to open EPS should handle PDF now. Your marketing department should upgrade to "modern" software

Anyway shouldn't the marketing guys be doing the conversion? They work for you guys not the other way around.

And the final option is that AFAIK if you print to the Acrobat printer (or Cute PDF which is free if you don't have Acrobat) you can specify the output as either Pdf or EPS.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
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Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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But we are still able to save to dxf and dwg 😉

Maybe I am repeating myself but the EPS is LESS processed format than PDF, easier to handle in illustration software not to mention the arcs & circles vs. segmented polilines....widely discussed.

Best Regards,
Piotr
Anonymous
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I am quite satisfied with pdf and find it much easier to work with.

But as eps is the industry standard AC should be able to save in this fommat.
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
Piotr wrote:
But we are still able to save to dxf and dwg 😉

Piotr
Agreed, there is nothing to be lost by keeping the option there (except for the programer that had to stop working on some other stuff, Maybe?) but would you send a consultant a dxf instead of a dwg? (joking)
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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David Larrew
Booster
Actually, thanks to Autodesk, I have had to send .DXF files to a consultant that could not read R2000 format (which is the oldest .DWG file format that you can save-out).
David Larrew, AIA, GDLA, GSRC

Architectural Technology Specialist

a r c h i S O L U T I O N S



WIN7-10/ OSX 10.15.7

AC 5.1-25 USA
David Larrew
Booster
Apparently, some of you have never worked with marketing/advertising companies... .EPS file format IS their version in relation to our standard .DWG file format.

As pointed out, why take away something that we used to have and, no matter how much better .PDF format is, .EPS is the industry standard for raster file format exchange.
David Larrew, AIA, GDLA, GSRC

Architectural Technology Specialist

a r c h i S O L U T I O N S



WIN7-10/ OSX 10.15.7

AC 5.1-25 USA
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
David wrote:
Actually, thanks to Autodesk, I have had to send .DXF files to a consultant that could not read R2000 format (which is the oldest .DWG file format that you can save-out).
The solution is called DWG gateway

www.dwggateway.com/pages/products/index.html

It lets any Autocad Release from R2.5 onwards to open dwgs created from any other Release. It is free and it works.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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David Larrew
Booster
Thanks for the link.
I sure wish I had this a couple years ago, when I was having to save-down those .DXF files for that consultant.
David Larrew, AIA, GDLA, GSRC

Architectural Technology Specialist

a r c h i S O L U T I O N S



WIN7-10/ OSX 10.15.7

AC 5.1-25 USA
David wrote:
.... .EPS is the industry standard for raster file format exchange.
Ditto, (one correction EPS is vector format 😉

Best Regards,
Piotr