Problem with size of eps and svg formats

[wcostadesign]

Hello guys! I am having a problem exporting a file as EPS or SVG. When opening it in illustrator, the file does not have the size of the file created in the affinity designer.
is there any solution to this?

Please see attached images:

[v_kyr]

Honestly those screenshots, as actually shown, don't tell much about the given and expected business card dimensions, other than maybe that the card is shown on a whole bigger document page then instead. - For SVG export via Designer check the bounding box settings via the export panels "more" options. - See here!

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For SVG and EPS file formats:

• (Use) Relative coordinates—when selected, objects in the exported file have relative positions for maximum editability. If this option is off, object positions are fixed to create a file which is optimized for viewing.

For SVG format:

• Set viewBox—when selected, the exported file includes coordinates and dimensions which define the view box of the image. If this option is off, no view box data is included in the exported file. The export area is used to define the view box.

Or inspect via opening the generated SVG/EPS files inside a text editor, what sizes have been defined in the files for the SVG bounding box and drawing dimensions in general!

[wcostadesign]

12 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Honestly those screenshots, as actually shown, don't tell much about the given and expected business card dimensions, other than maybe that the card is shown on a whole bigger document page then instead. - For SVG export via Designer check the bounding box settings via the export panels "more" options. - See here!

Or inspect via opening the generated SVG/EPS files inside a text editor, what sizes have been defined in the files for the SVG bounding box and drawing dimensions in general!

Hi v_kyr ! Thanks for the answer. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
The first image shows how the business card was created in the affinity designer with the dimensions of a standard business card.
The second image shows the same EPS file opened in the illustrator. Instead of opening with the appropriate dimensions, Illustrator is opening with the format of an a4 page. I am left to buy the license and before that I just want to make sure that my clients have managed to open the EPS documents with the appropriate original dimensions.

I have already checked the export options and have not yet been able to export so that Illustrator opens the file with the correct dimensions.
What am I doing wrong?

[v_kyr]

How does Affinity import the EPS file it generated in turn when you open that one inside Designer? - And as I said before, you can look into the generated SVG/EPS files with an editor, just open them with a plain texteditor, in order to inspect what page or boundingbox size settings those generated files finally do contain!

[wcostadesign]

19 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

How does Affinity import the EPS file it generated in turn when you open that one inside Designer? - And as I said before, you can look into the generated SVG/EPS files with an editor, just open them with a plain texteditor, in order to inspect what page or boundingbox size settings those generated files finally do contain!

When I open the eps file in the affinity designer. It works perfectly with the right size of the artboard..

I attached the txt file with the eps ..
Here is a preview 
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 270 157.91
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 270 158
%%Creator: Serif Affinity
%LanguageLevel: 3
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
101 dict begin
/m/moveto
/l/lineto
/c/curveto
3{load def}repeat
%%EndProlog
gsave
 

business-card-US-teste.txt

[v_kyr]

That's a pretty correct size generated EPS file with nothing unspecific inside and all apps which can deal here with EPS show it up the right way ...

• GraphicsConverter on Mac

• Inkscape

• Apple Preview.app

 

Thus it must be due to some own Illustrator related and predefined setting when opening that file. Check if Illustrator performs maybe some default page based placement of the EPS, aka something like loading that centered on a A4 page etc. - I don't use Illustrator, thus can't tell you where to look there, maybe some web reference like that here or the like.

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One way to open EPS file in Illustrator

1. Go to the File menu.
2. Click on Open.
3. Browse to the location where the file is stored.
4. Select EPS file.
5. Click Open.

 

[wcostadesign]

Thanks to verify it and for the help  @v_kyr 
Unfortunately I checked the same file in another PC with Illustrator and the same thing occur..
I was excited about to change from AI for AD... but as most of my clients and the platform where I work use Illustrator and ask for EPS, I won't be able to do this because of this illustrator error 😥💔

[v_kyr]

See also:

• Illustrator opens Postscript eps files in A4 format

• Document Size not exported to eps or ai (forum here)

 

 

[wcostadesign]

1 minute ago, v_kyr said:

See also:

• Illustrator opens Postscript eps files in A4 format

 

 

Yeah.. Unfortunately It seems that is a problem with how the AI reads EPS files created in other softwares... 
it seems that I will have to be stuck forever in the hands of adobe .. 😪

[v_kyr]

See this:

• Document Size not exported to eps or ai (forum here)

read Callum's answers and see his MOV file ...

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...I have noticed that when I open a document in Illustrator it automatically applies the last document preset I picked to it please watch my attached video. I have a feeling this is why they might always be opening at A4 in your Illustrator.

 

[wcostadesign]

2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

See this:

• Document Size not exported to eps or ai (forum here)

read Callum's answers and see his MOV file ...

 

AI preset.mov 6.39 MB · 0 downloads

 

Yeah, I made this test and it is really a problem on how the Illustrator open an EPS made in another software.. if the EPS is created within Illustrator, that problem don't occur 

[v_kyr]

It's possible that Illustrator itself usually embeds used media size definitions into an EPS file it generates. And thus if it opens EPS files where no media size definitions are found in EPS files (generated by other software) it then defaults to some A4 media size or the like! - Some versed Illustrator user can tell you better than I here for sure.