PS CS5 not saving preview for EPS files

I know this is super late...but I just downloaded CS5 Photoshop last week after paying 5 bazillion dollars for it, and I have encountered the same dumb problem. Files that I previously had NO PROBLEM saving as binary w/jpeg previews no longer will show the preview in Quark. I see after reading responses that resaving w/tiff previews seems to solve it, but what I want to know is whether or not it has been fixed so that I can save as EPS with JPEG previews as I have for the past 5 years.

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Maureen

Has this problem been solved yet? I just (finally) upgraded to CS5 and encountered it for the first time. In a large Illustrator project, all of the linked images that were created under CS4 preview fine, but the one new image I just inserted does not - an EPS saved from CS5 with a "Macintosh 8-bit preview." Just to support previous posts, I almost do not care what format Adobe uses for "Macintosh 8-bit preview" as long as it works. I don't want to suggest a too-easy solution, but if Adobe is not going to produce a preview of a linked image in Illustrator under this option, then maybe the option should not be available under the Save as EPS menu in Photoshop.

Chris: please answer these questions.

1) Does Adobe have any intention of fixing this in CS5, or are we expected to shell out for CS6 before it will work?

2) Do you concede that this issue is absolutely nothing to do with PICT? It's a JPEG preview issue.

3) Has this issue been raised AT ALL with the CS5 programmers? Is it on anybody's fix list?

4) Can the person in charge of this exact part of CS5 come onto this thread and commit to something? Anything?

...all questions are because you have in this thread a really well-defined bug, real-world examples of the problem, complaints from customers who must between them have paid Adobe several thousand dollars (and that's just for CS5 - I expect most of us have used Photoshop from before CS1), and you just appear to be avoiding the issue. This is lousy customer service.

It appears that this thread has been going on for the better part of a year. Kind of silly that something couldn't have been done in that amount of time, isn't it?

To clear up some of the misunderstanding that seems to be going on here, this is not an issue with PICT previews, unless Adobe is mislabeling PICT previews as JPEG previews.

I too am having this issue. I AM NOT running under 64 bit, so that is not the issue, and Photoshop CS4 saves them just fine on the same machine at the same time. So it comes down to something broken in the code for CS5 Photoshop.

Workarounds are not acceptable, as has been repeatedly stated in this thread. I work with files that exceed 1 gig in size, and saving them as EPS files is the only plausible way to import them into Illustrator or InDesign (or Quark for that matter). The JPEG preview allows for page layout and formatting without the extreme production slowdown that happens when using Tiffs, PSDs, Embedded Images, etc. Higher resolution previews will turn a 5 minute production job into a 45 minute "stare at the wall while the machine thinks about it" job.

Get it fixed. It's as simple as that. We don't need CS6, we need CS5 that works. Allocate the resources to fix what we have paid for, then go back to hitting us up for more cash for the next version.

Just want to add my support to those wanting Adobe to fix this.

The only practical way round this at the moment is to open + resave files in an earlier version. But that's a pain and not always possible.

Adobe has 'form' in with previews.

I need to get higher resolution preview files of large images to enable accurate positioning in Illustrator over the images (but without the slow-down which embedding a file would bring).

I use the 1993-vintage Photoshop 3.0 to achieve this!

I have a similar problem. If I locate a file through Photoshop, the PSD files are a blank icon and not a preview icon. If saved as tiff, png, eps, jpeg, they can be seen readlily as a preview icon. I am using 32 bit mode.

Patch please.

Interestingly, this problem just cropped up in our studio the other day when a designer was placing an EPS (saved in PS-CS5) in Illustrator CS5. It came in as a blank box. I was called over to troubleshoot the situation. Took me a minute to realize it was the "EPS Preview Bug" causing the problem. Ouch. Resaved as EPS with TIFF preview, and like magic, it reappeared correctly in Illustrator once again.

This is still a live issue. I get it on newly-purchased CS5.

I cannot believe all of the workaround nonsense on this post: EPS Save As box says "select preview format", but this preview is not properly saved with the file. It is a bug, plain and simple.

Dear Adobe - this is a $1000 software suite, please fix any identified bugs in a timely and responsible manner. Your own statement on this thread is that you're "looking into it" - what is the result of this research?

And for what it's worth, the nice thing about the EPS format is that it contains a good preview in Quark. For example, JPEGs tend to render in Quark picture boxes as very low-res images, and TIFFs as high-saturation images (both print fine), whereas EPS previews actually look like the final image. So it's no surprise some folk like 'em.

I went and filled out the Adobe Feature/Bug report page, again. This time I was referencing the 12.0.1 Photoshop update. Hopefully they are working on this. Link:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform