After Installation of Monterey no more EPS previews

[nicolea54182876]

Hi there,

After the installation of Monterey all EPS are without preview... What can I do

[Donkey Ink & Digital]

Okay it won't let me edit the post above, but the thumbnail issue only occurs in the Finder.

[Howard Woodburn]

Worked for me, tyvm.

[Kfir23645323zeed]

Many Thanks!!! It Works!!!!

[susanr97390151]

Thank you! This is the fix that worked. We're running it on many computers now and so far, so good. Here are a couple of pics to help clarify the method. (Yes, we're in the Art Department of the company and require visual aids.)

"Insert "<string>com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript</string>" below it with the same indentation and save the "Info.plist" file." And looks like this:

"Copy "Illustrator.qlgenerator" to "/Library/QuickLook" looks like this:

[Howard_F]

Yes, this works locally but uploading to a library website, they arrive with no preview and are rejected. This needs to fixed by whoever and quickly.

[Tom27215679rwom]

Thank you for your post. Very helpful indeed! 

[StickySteve]

No joy here as cant copy it back in - Any further help?

[default4c55impzun10]

Unfortunately it looks like Monterey 12.7 broke this fix. Is there another fix available for 12.7?

[chirp88]

No. It's breaks every time there is a new OS update. I gave up trying to get it to work.

[Quang2550]

This fix worked for a long time and had to be re-applied after each upgrade but now it has stopped working after upgrading to 12.7 but only on the Silicon chip and not the Intel chip. Anyone have a fix for this yet? I've tested this on multiple Silicon and Intel computers and all of the Intel on 12.7 worked after the fix but the Silicon doesn't.

[Atapp]

I applied the fix now in my M1 Mac and it works fine. I've written here several times that I'm adding the Illustrator.qlgenerator file to my user library. If there are no QuickLook folder there create one. 

I noticed earlier that it had stopped working. I replaced the file now and force restart Finder and it works.

[Quang2550]

Thank you for your quick response. I added the Illustrator.qlgenerator into the user's library just now. It didn't work so I rebooted the computer. Still didn't work so I relaunched finder and still didn't work. Weird!

[Atapp]

Did you remove the old one you added erlier in /Library ?

[Quang2550]

Just replaced the file in /Library and added the file in ~/User/Library/Quicklook

Relaunched finder a few times but no luck

[Atapp]

I updated to macOS Sonoma today and now it stopped working for me too

[Quang2550]

Unfortunately I still can't get it to work in Monterey even after replacing the file in /Library and ~/User/Library/Quicklook

[susanr97390151]

Do nothing to the file in your OS [SYSTEM] Macintosh HD/System/Library. Copy the Illustrator.qlgenerator file, alter it, and place it into your [USER] Macintosh HD/Library/QuickLook folder.

[Atapp]

I helped with this over the weekend. Worked fine in my macOS Ventura on a Mac M1 but not for the person I was helping. Later this weekend I updated to macOS Sonoma and now it's dead for me too. 

[marcoc44119771]

This is a problem.
But they don’t worry. It’s not them problem.

Marc

[jfraze]

The path to my user library is different: Macintosh HD/Users/JonFraze/Library/Quicklook. (I.e., it's not User/JonFraze/Macintosh HD/Library/Quicklook as I think you're saying above.) I'm pretty sure the path I'm finding is the only one available. Is that what you'd meant? (It's confounding how many Library and System folders are on a Mac. I've never understood that.)

I had it working for the past year but the fix isn't working for me any more, at any rate. Our IS guy "updated" last week and now it won't work whatever I try.

[Atapp]

/System/Library = don't touch

/Library = affects all users

/Users/you = your playground

[chirp88]

It will only work until the next update of either Adobe's softer or Mac OS. Then it will stop again.

[Quang2550]

I don't mind redoing the fix each time because our users use that feature a lot.

[Kencad_85]

Yeah, seems like this doesn't work for Sonoma anymore. I've done this fix twice now with the last two OS but since upgrading to Sonoma, nothing seems to work.

[Paul Mul]

Hi there

Any solutions that aren't workarounds? Surely this is a bug that needs fixed. I'm a designer who just updated to Monterey and this is a complete nightmare. Particularly frustrating when I'm in InDesign and want to Place an eps file and can't get a preview.

Thanks for any help!