From the course: Illustrator: Seeing Through Transparency

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Working with PostScript (EPS) files

Working with PostScript (EPS) files - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Seeing Through Transparency

Working with PostScript (EPS) files

When it comes time to saving your Illustrator files for placing into other applications. For example, maybe you're taking your file and you're placing it into InDesign or you're placing it into Microsoft Word or to QuarkXPress, so on and so forth, you have to pay attention to the file formats that you're using. Now if you're going into InDesign, it's something we'll actually cover in detail in the next movie, but the best file format that you could use is to actually stick with the native Illustrator file format. However, if you're sending graphics into QuarkXPress or into other applications that maybe are unknown to you, for example, a client requests a image from you or some piece of artwork from you and you don't really know how they're going to be using it, the best way to provide it to them is in a standardized format called EPS or PostScript. However, as we've already discussed throughout this entire title, PostScript is a language that does not understand transparency. In other…

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