Asyle Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Hello all, I don’t know if this was already posted but I have a problem when I export my vector file in eps, all the shapes that are not in full opacity are rasterized. Right now I’m putting full opacity for those layers, open the document in adobe illustrator, decrease opacity where i want to and export it again as .eps. It works but I wish I could only use the affinity designer app. Does anyone else have this problem ? Am I missing something in the export options ? Thank you ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Hi Asyle, Welcome to the forums Unfortunately the EPS format doesn't support any kind of transparency. Illustrator is only able to do it because Adobe embeds an Ai file inside the EPS which retains the transparency. I recommend using another format that supports transparency, such as PDF. I hope this helps! 8BitCerberus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BitCerberus Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Adobe always does their own thing to break standard/open formats and make them only work with their programs. They do the same with svg and even tiff. It’s been a source of great frustration for me the past couple decades as a graphic designer and web designer working with them and trying to integrate standards compliant software/technology. hengkidh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hengkidh Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 On 2/8/2020 at 1:01 AM, 8BitCerberus said: Adobe always does their own thing to break standard/open formats and make them only work with their programs. They do the same with svg and even tiff. It’s been a source of great frustration for me the past couple decades as a graphic designer and web designer working with them and trying to integrate standards compliant software/technology. 😂 I see. I hope that the transparency problem while exporting to .EPS will be solved soon. This is the only downside after the shape-builder. Quote MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017 running macOS Big Sur version 11.0.1Affinity Deisgner 1.8.6 - Affinity Photo 1.8.6 - Affinity Publisher 1.8.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 minute ago, hengkidh said: 😂 I see. I hope that the transparency problem while exporting to .EPS will be solved soon. This is the only downside after the shape-builder. It's not something to be solved. The standard EPS format simply does not support transparency. It's a very old, largely obsolete format. If you want transparency, try PDF. Seizmic and hengkidh 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizmic Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 On 4/10/2020 at 8:33 AM, walt.farrell said: It's not something to be solved. The standard EPS format simply does not support transparency. It's a very old, largely obsolete format. If you want transparency, try PDF. Crazy I didn't know this about .eps after like 20yrs of doing graphics! I'm dealing with an outfit right now that accepts ONLY .eps files. So weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I made a bit of a discovery today. I started an illustration in Designer with the intention of exporting to eps and finishing in Illustrator, but and got carried away and took it to far...too many gradients, transparencies, etc. Illustrator of course rasterized a bunch of elements so I decided to try opening the eps file in CorelDRAW 2020 and what do ya know, it opened without converting objects to raster, and removed any transparencies I had to solid colors which are easy to recreate. Not that we all happen to have CorelDRAW on our machines, and I still need to prove this out to make sure it reliable, but there is a possible alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 14 hours ago, befehr said: I made a bit of a discovery today. I started an illustration in Designer with the intention of exporting to eps and finishing in Illustrator, but and got carried away and took it to far...too many gradients, transparencies, etc. Illustrator of course rasterized a bunch of elements so I decided to try opening the eps file in CorelDRAW 2020 and what do ya know, it opened without converting objects to raster, and removed any transparencies I had to solid colors which are easy to recreate. I usually copy and paste between Affinity and Illustrator which retains gradients and transparency both ways - as stated above eps is pretty much obsolete, I only find it useful for having the ability to open old stuff and re-save as PDF or Affinity formats Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Dazmondo77 said: I usually copy and paste between Affinity and Illustrator which retains gradients and transparency both ways - as stated above eps is pretty much obsolete, I only find it useful for having the ability to open old stuff and re-save as PDF or Affinity formats Yeah, I do the copy/paste dance for simple illustrations but dealing with multiple layers can be time consuming. I guess my point was, which is something I always seem to miss on my original posts, is that it is interesting that DRAW can open EPSs seemingly more reliably than Illustrator. That is about the only thing I like about Corel these days, especially since the price has really gone up. Sadly, EPS is still required for sites stock sites that sell vector files. Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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