EPS files blank in Designer

[JCSJCS]

Hello,

I am trying to open and edit some .EPS files. In Publisher, Designer, and Photo they show up completely empty. The files work just fine in illustrator, photoshop, Preview - just not Affinity apps.

Search around the common cause seems to be zeroing the x/y coordinates, but this is not the case here. There is no layer information.

Very frustrating as once again the issue only exists on Affinity's stuff. Could anyone point me in the right direction on how to make these files work?

 

[firstdefence]

@JCSJCS Can you upload one of the eps files?

 

[JCSJCS]

@firstdefencethanks - file attached. I can "place" it fine, interestingly enough.

 

Plumbago-auriculata-flower-bw-1.eps

[firstdefence]

Opens fine in Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, I'm on Mac, running High Sierra

[R C-R]

7 minutes ago, JCSJCS said:

file attached. I can "place" it fine, interestingly enough.

FWIW, I can open that file without problems in AD, AP, or APub, with all of its curve layers visible in its 7 groups in the top level Layer container object. As opened in APub, it looks like this:

Each of those "(Group)" container layers contains a great many curve layers, for example 404 in the top one, but everything seems to be there, although some of it is partially off of the canvas.

I can also save it as an .afpub file without problems. I could post that here but I won't without knowing its source, since it might be a copyrighted work.

[JCSJCS]

Ok, great to know it's on my end at least. Is there anything I should check on my end to revert this behaviour?

[Alfred]

34 minutes ago, JCSJCS said:

file attached. I can "place" it fine, interestingly enough.

 

8 minutes ago, R C-R said:

FWIW, I can open that file without problems in AD, AP, or APub, with all of its curve layers visible in its 7 groups in the top level Layer container object.

FWIW, I can open or place it in AD or APh on iPad. Once again, there is a top-level Layer object containing seven groups of Curve layers.

[firstdefence]

2 hours ago, JCSJCS said:

Ok, great to know it's on my end at least. Is there anything I should check on my end to revert this behaviour?

Can you replicate this opening issue consistently?

Which version of both OS X and Affinity Designer are you using, this might help others with a similar or the same setup as you when testing.

I suspect it's just a glitch and closing the app will rectify the issue or a reboot of the system.