Education for Life Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hi, We found that Affinity Designer has some serious problems with EPS files. Many parts of the vector end up pix-elated! We found a workaround; we opened the EPS files in Adobe illustrator, then saved it as an AI file. When we open the AI file in Affinity Designer the file has no issues! Thanks for looking into it! Koen 24148.eps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arghmath Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hi Koen, I have opened your EPS and can confirm that the top layer of the heart is pixel layer. Beneath layers are vectors. The rest of the EPS is complete vector as well. Is this right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Education for Life Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 Correct! But there is more. Many parts of this image have pixel and vector layers mixed up. But.. When I open the EPS in Adobe Illustrator, all layers are vector! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted October 9, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 9, 2019 Hi Education for Live, Thanks for the file. The issue here is that the original EPS is an Illustrator formatted EPS file which means it contains two streams of data: Regular EPS data and an Embedded AI file. What this means is that when Illustrator opens the EPS it will read the Illustrator stream showing the file exactly as it was saved when created in Illustrator. However there will be Illustrator elements in the file that aren't compatible with EPS (for example Mesh Fills) and will get rasterised into pixel data in the EPS stream, when saved. But when opened in AI they appear correctly as vector objects because it is using the AI stream. When the EPS file is opened in Affinity we are unable to read the AI stream and instead have to open the EPS stream with the rasterised data. As such this isn't a bug, just an annoyance on how Illustrator exports EPS files! Hope that help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Education for Life Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 Hi Sean, Thanks for the explanation. That's really helpful. Now that we know it's not an Affinity issue, we'll continue to invest time in it. Koen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerFx Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 Hi Sean, Did you manage to find a way to open the AI files preserving groups and layers correctly? I´m new to affinity a month or two because got fed up with Adobe plans but I´m trying to convert an AI file at this moment and the objects in the file become group differently part of an object group to part of another one and so on .... Appreciate any help from anyone that has manage to find a way to improve this conversion. Tks, Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Education for Life Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 Affinity works fine with opening EPS and AI files. If it doesn't if often because the producer of the file (Freepik for example) didn't do a great job at making the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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