opening eps files with Preview?

perelachess · #1 July 17th, 2009, 10:33 AM

Hi there,

I am using preview to open eps files. But every time I quit, Preview ask me if I want to save the cahnges, even when I obviously didn t do any!!

this is quite annoying, How to set Preview to quit automatically?

thaks a lot!

Julien

MisterMe · #2 July 17th, 2009, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by perelachess

... How to set Preview to quit automatically?

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You can't. You can Force Quit if it's that important to you.

ElDiabloConCaca · #3 July 17th, 2009, 05:31 PM

Or press Apple-D to select "Don't Save" instead of mousing and clicking the button.

**fryke** · #4 July 17th, 2009, 06:00 PM

The reason Preview does this is this: In order to display the EPS, it has to translate it to PDF. (Quartz is PDF-based, not PostScript-based.) So any EPS document you open in Preview is "changed" already.

perelachess · #5 July 20th, 2009, 05:50 PM

THanks for your answer, so the follow up question, would be

"What do you use to quickly see an eps file?"

do you have a nice software to suggest? I tried cocoviewX, it is nearly perfect except it is cutting most of the files...

what else could do the job?

thanks a lot,

Julien

MisterMe · #6 July 20th, 2009, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by perelachess

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"What do you use to quickly see an eps file?"

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What's wrong with Preview?

DeltaMac · #7 July 20th, 2009, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MisterMe

What's wrong with Preview?

Going in circles?
This is where the OP started, with opening EPS files in Preview. Because Preview apparently imports the EPS file, and not just a simple open, it always asks if you want to save the 'changes'. That would make reviewing a lot of EPS files a pretty slow process. So,
Do I get the general idea, Julien?

If you have Leopard you could try the Quick Look hint in this article:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...71127072210308

MisterMe · #8 July 21st, 2009, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by DeltaMac

Going in circles?
This is where the OP started, with opening EPS files in Preview. ...

If you have Leopard you could try the Quick Look hint in this article:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...71127072210308

I am quite well aware that this thread started with the OP's looking for a way to change Preview's behavior. I thought that fryke gave him an excellent explanation. The only way to open an EPS file without converting it is to use an app that includes its own PostScript interpreter or GhostScript. The only [free] one that immediately comes to mind is MacGSView, a GhostScript viewer. Because ESP GhostScript is now an integral part of MacOS X, GhostScript viewers for MacOS X are becoming difficult to find. There is also gsclient, a part of the macgs-851-shlib GhostScript package. However, these GhostScript viewers are much slower than Preview.