I've had two people in the last week ask me to convert jpg files to eps files and I don't know if it can be done without losing resolution. I searched found a program called jpeg2ps but do you think i could get the thing to work? It's run by command lines and all confusing stuff and I think has to be installed on a server. Way too much work for converting one file. I've read that although PS will convert them it's not a true eps format, and I can use Freehand, which makes the file size bigger but still doesn't seem to enlarge much without losing resolution. I gather that's the advantage of eps is that they aren't resolution dependant. Can anyone enlighten me on the whole eps thing?
Thanks,
Blue
Shirthead posted this at 08:54 — 26th June 2006.
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Nothing is going to do that great a job of converting a bitmap based file to a vector one without a little tweaking. Often the best bet is to redraw. Inkscape is a free program that does a reasonable job of it though. Word of warning though - you sometimes end up with a lot of layers from it. Worth a shot.
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demonhale posted this at 09:23 — 26th June 2006.
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if you have AI, then you can try and reconvert them to original vector and resave again to EPS, but from a raw Jpeg to EPS it would be difficult and theres no layer or vector encoding in the jpg to make it reusable as EPS...
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Blue posted this at 09:32 — 26th June 2006.
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Thanks I'll give it a go.
Blue
Megan posted this at 12:48 — 26th June 2006.
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Shirthead - does Inkscape have a command to convert a bitmap to vector? BTW, do you know if it's stable on windoze yet? Last time I checked it was pretty buggy.
Flash has a "trace bitmap" command that does an okay job depending on what type of image it is (i.e. photos don't work well but things like logos or clipart are okay). You would have to do some tweaking from there.
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Shirthead posted this at 13:02 — 26th June 2006.
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Only played with inkscape on windows, but it seemed fairly stable. Bit odd to use, but didn't cause any problems.
Inkscape has a tracebitmap tool that I found a little more controllable than the one in flash. Graphics are not really my area, but I managed to get some reasonable results on it from nice contrasty bitmaps. There are a couple more tools that look like they do related stuff as well.
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Renegade posted this at 22:05 — 26th June 2006.
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You can also try exporting/saving as a photoshop EPS if you have... photoshop
02bunced posted this at 17:07 — 1st July 2006.
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Illustrator CS2 boast live trace which is very configurable - it gives you 16 settings you can choose from and does quite a nice job of it
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