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Classic user who just upgraded. When my presets were automatically brought into V2 they coordination were flipped. All of mine are horizontal orientation and now they are vertical. My 2560w X 1920h in classic became 1920w X 2560w. See attached images Seems like an easy bug to fix. Variable assignment? Luckily I only have a few presents so I can fix. Someone with many could be very annoyed

My final comment, as I found one more option At least in the case of iStockPhoto illustrator eps files, Xara also could load and edit as vectors (someone suggested previuosly) there are 2 versions of Xara, and I went with the non-subscription model at magix. One time price. updated my image below. Thank you for all the great comments and suggesting. I think the thread is good full summary of the issue and solutions.. I see now there are a lot of questions on the webs about the illustrator eps files. While there are some similar "Adobe puts some proprietary stuff in there, and Adobe seems to be a standard for stock file sites"... I dont think anyone went through and tried a bunch of applications with an adobe eps file. So this thread covers the bases. thanks

Pixel I see you commented several times that it will work, even taking the time to show an editable eps file in designer. I hope you took the time to read the rest of the thread, see my example images and commentary from others. it seems things started in illustrator have a tendency to only be editable in illustrator.

So I learned something... from all the comments here and trying things out Summary: Seems only Adobe Illustrator can import EPS as a vector, keep it as a vector in the application, and make it fully editable as a vector. Well based on me trying several programs, reading here, and then googling a ton of things. First to set the stage, the EPS file is from iStockPhoto, which is a Getty Images company and one of the largest stock image companies out there. This wasnt a designer in his spare bedroom giving me some weird variation of an eps. When purchasing from iStock they offer one choice of download... EPS Attached image is screen caps within the editors from Corel Draw Gimp with Ghostscript Corel Paint Shop Pro Affinity Designer illustrator. inkscape also has a Ghostscript integration that I didnt implement, after reading comments above how it converts to raster and seeing the output from GIMP I expected the same I also spent a ton of time researching products and from product descriptions I could see they were doing raster also. Is Adobe Ilustrator really the only product that can import all/most EPS as vector, keep as vector, and edit as vector? The image speaks for itself.. all the others convert to raster. Again not 100% scientific Still love the Affinity products and will keep using. But starting a merchandise business and relying heavily on clipart... well regardless of the use you can clearly see that how much better illustrator is over the others. Most surprising was that Corel couldn't handle considering they price themselves in the Adobe league. Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions! Please offer any other suggestions or comments, EDITS: Grammar cleanup

Sorry Guys. OP here. I posted this then got invited to the beach.. just looking now. Simply the eps file is imported into Affinity as a Raster image. Pixelated. When I load the same eps image into Gimp (integrated with GhostScript) it 100% loads as a full vector image. I can access each individual vector shape. Delete segments. Change colors. i did not try yet to export out of Gimp as something else and bring back into Affinity I am in the office now and when I get home (where Affinity) is I will try @Wosven 's suggestion... (I really appreciate the extensive writeup) but the key thing is Gimp makes it transparent. I drag and drop the eps into the canvas, i get the small UI dpi chooser (and a few other features) and it is imported as vector. I may do a short video and share the variations

I am Windows. I see many threads about Designer not having full EPS support. Recommendations of other products... but, I paid for this one. Well it seems others have found a way to integrate the GhostScript app so that it takes over when an EPS image is dragged in. Free GIMP supports this.. I had to create a new environment variable. Sure enough I drag in an EPS vector that I paid for from an online stock service, a popup appeared for some DPI settings.. and boom.. I have a full editable vector in Gimp If Gimp can do it...