Placing Illustrator files—AI or EPS?

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October 9, 2023
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I have a multi-page document and am placing .AI files. Is there any benefit to converting them to .EPS files? Or will either work for print?

Thanks!

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Randy Hagan

Community Expert

Adobe Illustrator-native files are the answer for your own workflow, with most all vendors who will be able to produce excellent results with it.

EPS is kind of a lowest-common denominator currency for passing graphics files, and doesn't incorporate many of the more advanced capabilities of Illustrator files. For sophisticated graphic work with transparency and various effects, Illustrator-native files may be the only way to render elaborately styled illustrations and graphics.

Randy

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Fern157FAuthor

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Thanks, Randy!

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Avoid EPS as far as you can. Avoid PostScript in any form as it is archaic file type which does not support transparency or color management.

Use AI or save as PDF/X-4, also from other programs. PDF/X-4 is the recommended standard.

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Fern157FAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks! Good to know since I've been placing AI files and it's working great. Just wanted to check since this will go to print. (It's not ePub but I didn't see any tags for print...) Appreciate your comment! 🙂

Steve Werner

Community Expert

EPS are very old and out of date. They don't support transparency, I can't think of any positive reason to use them.

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