I have an eps file with a TIFF preview but I want the eps to have a PICT preview how can I change the Preview type ?
mm
Some more information about your eps may prove useful. What created the file? Personally I go the other way and want tiff preview. Works better with some app’s if you cross platform the files. Any how if your files are photoshop images you could just open and write back over original. Your links in other app’s would of cause be modified.
set inputFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where's the folder with the EPS files?" without invisibles
tell application "Finder"
set filesList to (files of inputFolder whose file type is "EPSF" and creator type is "8BIM")
end tell
repeat with aFile in filesList
tell application "Finder"
set theFile to aFile as alias
end tell
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
set display dialogs to never
open theFile
save current document in file (aFile as string) as Photoshop EPS with options ¬
{class:EPS save options, embed color profile:true, encoding:binary, preview type:eight bit Mac OS}
close current document
end tell
end repeat
Hi mm
Like Mark mentions could do with knowing the App!
However if your talking Quark then i think (Not 100%:/) that if your saving page as an eps then what ever you changed your preview to last
will be created when you say:
include preview:true
you can’t set it in the script itself the actual kind of preview.
so just save your first doc with a PICT Preview then everyone after that you save should be the same.
Hope this helps…
Pidge, with Quark I think if you set EPS format to “PC color” then include preview will result in tiff instead of pict
Mark, Pidge
I am exporting to EPS from Indesign 2.0 and I need to apply the preview format. it defaults to Tiff so all the pages were i need a tiff preview are good. There is no option in 2.0 to select the preview format of the eps when exporting so I am trying to figure out if there is some other way to get the preview to PICT format without adding the complications of opening it up in illustrator or photoshop and re-saving it.
now here is the code I was trying to use to set the preview and although it does appear to work when I check the preview format it is always Tiff
set clientWorkFolderPath to (path to desktop)
set QuarkFileName to "test"
tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
activate
set previewFormat to " PICT"
ignoring application responses
export front document to ("" & clientWorkFolderPath & QuarkFileName & ".eps") format EPS type with showing options
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "InDesign 2.0.2"
click of pop up button 3 of window 1
perform action "AXPress" of menu item previewFormat of menu 1 of pop up button 3 of window 1
click of pop up button 3 of window 1
keystroke return & return
end tell
end tell
end ignoring
end tell
if you can think of any other way to get this done it would be greatly appreciated
ohh and yes you can apply the preview format in Quark
like this
set clientWorkFolderPath to (path to desktop)
set QuarkFileName to ("" & clientWorkFolderPath & "test.eps")
set previewFormat to "Mac Color" -- this changes in quaark 7 to PICT and TIFF
tell application "QuarkXPress"
save page 1 of document 1 in QuarkFileName EPS format previewFormat EPS data binary EPS OPI include images
end tell
thanks for your help
mm
Hey Guys!
Well i did say i wasn’t 100% on the quark PICT preview.
We don’t have that version of indesign so not sure how you would do it.
the properties of the EPS export preference in CS2 do have a preview.
I’m sure it won’t work in your version of indesign but you can have a look into it if you want:
EPS export preference‚n : EPS export preferences
properties
applied flattener preset (flattener preset) : The flattener preset
bleed bottom (number or string) : Amount to image below the defined page size
bleed inside (number or string) : Amount to image inside the defined page size
bleed outside (number or string) : Amount to image outside the defined page size
bleed top (number or string) : Amount to image above the defined page size
class (type class, r/o) : The class descriptor type
data format (ASCII/binary) : The format of data sent to the printer
EPS color (RGB/CMYK/gray/unchanged color space/postscript color management) : The EPS color space
EPS spreads (boolean) : Whether to export the pages as spreads
font embedding (none/complete/subset) : Control how fonts are embedded to the exported EPS
ignore spread overrides (boolean) : Whether to ignore flattener spread overrides
image data (all image data/proxy image data) : Control how much image data is exported to the EPS
object reference (EPS export preference, r/o) : An object reference for this EPS export preference
omit bitmaps (boolean) : Replace bitmap images with OPI links
omit EPS (boolean) : Replace EPS images with OPI links
omit PDF (boolean) : Replace PDF images with OPI links
OPI image replacement (boolean) : Whether to print graphics that are either linked using OPI comments or OPI comments stored in imported EPS files
page range (anything) : The range of pages. Can return: all pages or string.
parent (reference, r/o) : The EPS export preference's parent
PostScript level (level 2/level 3) : The level of PostScript to send to the printer
preview (none/TIFF preview/PICT preview) : the type of preview to save with the exported EPS
properties (record) : Property that allows setting of several properties at the same time
it something to try after all!
sorry i couldn’t be of more help!!
mm, I only have IDCS2 but from what I see here there is an EPS export preference class under the “Preferences Suite” and all options of the dialog are there. So you should be able to make Flattener Preset then include this in the EPS export options. Preview is an option I hope this is the same in ID2 if that was what you meant.