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Browsing .ai and .eps files ?
Anyone know of any simple software that will allow me to view thumbnails of .ai files and .eps ones please?
It would just save me a lot of time and post it notes stuck everywhere…
Thanks…
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Extensis Portfolio 6.0 is the best, the newer versions dont do it so well. a backward step there. version 6 is hard to find now… but it does the lot
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ive been after a good one too…..peter n told me about one but guess what..ive forgotten what it was 😮 peter what was the software called 😉
cheers
nik
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I think "Thumbsplus" was another which was previously recommended.
Dawn
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Cheewoo vary view is another one, comes on a 30 session free trial(or at least my version did, not sure where I got it though, sorry).
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I downloaded a trial of Thumbplus. I installed and uninstalled it straight away. It did not show any of my eps files of ai’s.
I’ll stick with my Portfolio 6 thanks -
Thumbs plus didn’t work for me either. I think part of the problem is that some of my files don’t have thumbnails saved within them? PaintshopPro 10 seems to work with lot’s of my files….
Adam
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Somebody on here suggested XnVeiw which is a free download, but I couldn’t get it to view ai’s.
Peter
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just tried varyview, that was crap to!
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the thing is… there is quite a few variations of AI/EPS now… the later version of AI is acutally formatted as a PDF, so we are relying on programs saving a thumbnail with the files when we save.
Make sure u have downloading Aodbe Reader 7, that helps as it thumbnails PDF’s.
If it is a 5mb AI/EPS then it will take ages to raster the thumbnail and really would need a top quality program to get it right. I did once write a routine that took the corel file and exported it to a database as a 200pixel wide JPEG.
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irfanview will browse eps files
Peter
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Just thought i would add to this, after extensive research last night and farting around with some pretty useless programs, including XNveiw etc etc. I had a brain wave, and right under my nose on the pC i opened photoshop and then adobe bridge… guess what….? I could view eps thumbnails all the time in bridge!
DOH!
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I was gonna say adobe bridge too. I got it in a trial adobe cs4, after 30 days the cs4 stopped working but bridge remained 🙂
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infraveiw for me too
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