GFS Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 A client has sent me an EPS from PS and it's opening in greyscale. The Finder preview is fine. Anyone know how to open/import into either Designer or Photo and retain the correct colours? Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Hard to tell without seeing the file. However it might be related to this here in terms of color profile usage. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFS Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 Thanks v_Kyr, That is exactly the problem! However having read the various threads, I'm none the wiser about how to open the file in colour Is there something that the client needs to do when exporting? (I'm a photographer and I have no experience of Illustrator ... nor much of AFD) Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFS Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 So, is the answer to this, that there is no answer? Do I need to request a native Illustrator file instead? Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Well as said before, without knowing how the EPS file looks like and especially it's code is generated here (aka how the file's internal "%%DocumentProcessColors: ..." etc. is setup) it's hard to tell at all if it might be misinterpreted when parsed in (imported) by AD. EPS files can be opened in text editors, so you can take a look inside what it's code describes here. - However, if other apps which also deal with EPS do all show it up instead in color, then probably AD/AP do have difficulties here with interpreting that from Illustrator generated file and do produce some mismatch here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 27, 2018 Staff Share Posted January 27, 2018 Hi GFS, Can you please upload the EPS file using this link for us to take a look? All files will be deleted after being inspected. Thanks. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFS Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Hi MEB, file is uploaded. Headers say it is Illustrator 16 Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 28, 2018 Staff Share Posted January 28, 2018 Hi GFS, Thanks for the file. Affinity is assigning a greyscale profile to this file on import (because it doesn't have any profile) and i don't think it's possible to revert this. I will check with the dev team if there's anything we can do here (prompting for a colour profile on import or something). Meanwhile check your PM's for a link to a file you can import in Affinity Designer without issues. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFS Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Hi MEB, thanks very much for the converted file. Regarding the problem ... why doesn't AFD ask me what profile I want to assign when I'm opening a document with no profile? Instead it is deciding that the document is greyscale ... which it is not. Seems like an obvious thing to do ... offer the choice when opening. Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCode Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Hello I even have a problem that GSF is what you have a solution because it really blocks my work thank you in advance Jean Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 16, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2018 Hi GFS, Yes, Affinity is assigning a greyscale profile itself which it shouldn't be doing at all. We already have this logged and the dev team is looking/working on this. We may end up providing a chooser so the user can decide for himself. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 16, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2018 @BlackCode Welcome to Affinity Forums Can you please upload one of your EPS files using the link i provided on the 6th post on this thread so we can take a look at it too? All files will be deleted after inspection. Thanks. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCode Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Hi MEB, file is uploaded. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btsi9371 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Is there any update on this yet? I am having the same problem today and it's really slowing me down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 13, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 13, 2018 Hi @btsi9371, Welcome to the forums. Can you please upload the file so we can have a look? Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 13, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 13, 2018 Hi btsi9371, Welcome to Affinity Forums This issue was already assigned to a developer but wasn't fixed yet. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettworth Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Hi team, has this been fixed yet? I'm having the same issue with an EPS file. Is there an online converter you would recommend for these kinds of files? ebitatt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakub123 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Hi Affinity, I'm struggling with the same issue (eps file without profile, or rather some proprietary info from the most widespread vector tool) is assigned as CMYK even though the designer has embedded sRGB profile. You have mentioned some chooser on import. Has this been addressed in any way? Thanks a lot for an answer, Jakub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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