can anyone tell me why i cannot see imported eps files?

[John Wilson]

I get this with most AI files but the EPS ones I just open them in Photoshop and resave them as a earlier version….. sometimes it helps

I know it’s not the best answer but it’s a work around until you find a proper one

[Dave Bruce]

Some do that in Signlab haven’t managed to sort it yet, but if you open in Corel use Postscript Interpreted filter then export as eps and Signlab should open it OK.

Cheers

Dave.com.com.com

[Alan Drury]

May have something to do with fonts if in the eps or is saved as later version of eps withing Illustrator than the import filter supports. Dave is right about the Corel filter although this is not the case in X3.
alan D

[David White]

Thanks everyone ill give it a try

[Clive Darbon]

Hi David, let me know how you get on, because I am having exactly the same trouble with SignLab and am thinking of buying CorelDraw. I won’t bother getting it if it doesn’t solve the problem!

I believe Illustrator 8 and below all work fine with SignLab but the later versions don’t. I think it has something to do with fonts not being converted to paths though I’m not sure?

Spooky

[David Rowland]

We all get problems with EPS for other applications… The EPS format has been butchered around.

EPS can be an Illustrator File
EPS can be embedded Postscript file
EPS can also be DCS seperated output
EPS can be a badly named Postscript output file
EPS can ….

its goes on and on… luckly we have PDF now

[Clive Darbon]

Thats true Dave, but can you manipulate a pdf file?

PS I’m not a techie as you may have guessed, just a signmaker that likes things to work – no questions!

Regards, Spooky 😉

[Alan Drury]

Signlab 7.1 imports pdf very well. Corel V12 will import pdf well but X3 is better. Fonts embedded in pdf will import as fonts/text or curves SL 7.1, fonts are fonts even if the font is not on your system. In X3 fonts/text are text and may be substituted if font not on your system or curves. Font shape is there but not editable text. It depends what version of SL or Corel you have or want X3 will import CS I think but not CS2. If you upload it here I can check.
Alan D

[Gordon Forbes]

Read the signlab web site they now have a forum. If the new version it is to do with importing things to different layers automatically on import. so check if you have multiple layers?

Goop

[Alan Drury]

Yes very good point, later builds are showing imported files coming in on different pages rather than layers, grouping sorts this apparently. Goto http://www.cadlink.com and go through the Infosource links to forum. Any questions can be posted there and the Cadlink guys to respond virtually on a daily basis.
Alan D