Re: Ghostview (latest version) won't work

twisted0n3@xxxxxxxxx wrote in
news:1151364864.084879.220570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

to sum up various posts of yours :
It looks like an EPS file in its internal structure. Syntax and such.
....

GSview 4.8 2006-02-25
AFPL Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)
Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Displaying non DSC file C:/none/of/your/business.eps
Error: /undefined in C
....

However GSView also tells you it is not a DSC file. So it cannot be an
EPS (EPS must be DSC compliant).

... The first few lines are:
231.21893 392.20214 C
224.89342 391.94362 224.89342 391.94362 220.59184 392.97855 C
228.43502 398.41398 235.26709 402.81420 245.13534 418.08501 C
251.96683 428.95587 261.07569 439.05061 269.93169 440.08583 C
269.93169 440.08583 L
@c
S
As said by others, if the above REALLY are the bytes you have from
offset zero of your file, then definitely it is NOT a valid Postscript
or EPS (in the sense that it will error on execution, saying '/undefined
in C' or something very similar).

I guess this is how Adobe Illustrator documents appear.
....

If I read the sentence above correctly, the document was thus saved as
an Illustrator document (*.AI) , NOT as a Postscript...

Ergo it is NOT Postscript (nor EPS).

It may look like Postscript because AI native format was PostScript-
based until some version of AI (dunno which precisely. 8 ? 9 ?). But the
..AI file precisely lacked the Illustrator prolog that would make it a
valid Postscript. This sounds very much like the situation you are in.

To confirm that, I made the following test (with Illustrator CS2) :
I saved an (empty) document as an AI 3 format. Here is the verbatim copy
of the file, starting at file offset zero :

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(TM) 3.2
%%AI8_CreatorVersion: 12.0.0
%%For: (xxxxx) (xxxxx)
%%Title: (Untitled-1.ai)
%%CreationDate: 6/27/2006 11:40 AM
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 0 0
%%DocumentProcessColors:
%%DocumentNeededResources: procset Adobe_packedarray 2.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_cshow 1.1 0
%%+ procset Adobe_customcolor 1.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_pattern_AI3 1.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 1.0 1
%AI3_ColorUsage: Color
%%CMYKCustomColor: 1 1 1 1 ([Registration])
%AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5
%AI3_TileBox: 13 13 599 779
%AI3_DocumentPreview: None
%%PageOrigin:0 0
%AI7_GridSettings: 72 8 72 8 1 0 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9
%AI9_Flatten: 1
%AI12_CMSettings: 00.MS
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_packedarray 2.0 0
Adobe_packedarray /initialize get exec
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_cshow 1.1 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_customcolor 1.0 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_pattern_AI3 1.0 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 1.0 1
%%EndProlog
%%BeginSetup
Adobe_cshow /initialize get exec
Adobe_customcolor /initialize get exec
Adobe_pattern_AI3 /initialize get exec
Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 /initialize get exec
%AI3_BeginPattern: (Grid on Grid)
(Grid on Grid) 10.457 10.457 73.207 73.2051 [
%AI3_Tile
(0 O 0 R 0.027451 0.027451 0.14902 0 k
0.027451 0.027451 0.14902 0 K
) @
....

It may look and taste very much like DSC / Postscript but it is not (or
at least, it is not a self-sufficient PS code).

If I make the same test, but saving as AI 8 format I get something that
is executable with GS (but still not a valid EPS, since it lacks the
EPSF header) :

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(R) 8.0
%%AI8_CreatorVersion: 12.0.0
%%For: (PUBLISHING) (Unisys Italia S.p.A.)
%%Title: (Untitled-1.ai)
%%CreationDate: 6/27/2006 11:45 AM
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 0 0
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 0 0
%%DocumentProcessColors:
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset Adobe_level2_AI5 1.2 0
%%+ procset AGM_Gradient 1.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_ColorImage_AI6 1.3 0
%%+ procset Adobe_Illustrator_AI5 1.3 0
%%+ procset Adobe_pattern_AI5 1.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_cshow 2.0 8
%%+ procset Adobe_shading_AI8 1.0 0
%AI5_FileFormat 4.0
%AI3_ColorUsage: Color
%AI7_ImageSettings: 0
%%CMYKCustomColor: 1 1 1 1 ([Registration])
%%CMYKProcessColor: 1 1 0 0 (Global Deep Sea Blue)
%%+ 0.8 0 1 0 (Global Green)
%%+ 1 0 0 0 (Global Pure Cyan)
%%+ 0 0 1 0 (Global Pure Yellow)
%%+ 0 1 1 0 (Global Red)
%%+ 0 0.5 1 0 (Global Squash)
%%AI6_ColorSeparationSet: 1 1 (AI6 Default Color Separation Set)
%%+ Options: 1 16 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4
%%+ PPD: 1 21 0 0 60 45 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ()
%AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5
%AI3_TileBox: 13 13 599 779
%AI3_DocumentPreview: None
%AI5_ArtSize: 612 792
%AI5_RulerUnits: 2
%AI5_ArtFlags: 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
%AI5_TargetResolution: 800
%AI5_NumLayers: 1
%AI8_OpenToView: -303 772.2471 0.81 1004 659 26 0 0 9 69 0 0
%AI5_OpenViewLayers: 7
%%PageOrigin:0 0
%AI7_GridSettings: 72 8 72 8 1 0 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9
%AI9_Flatten: 1
%AI12_CMSettings: 00.MS
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%BeginResource: procset Adobe_level2_AI5 1.2 0
%%Title: (Adobe Illustrator (R) Version 5.0 Level 2 Emulation)
%%Version: 1.2 0
%%CreationDate: (04/10/93) ()
%%Copyright: ((C) 1987-1996 Adobe Systems Incorporated All Rights
Reserved)
userdict /Adobe_level2_AI5 26 dict dup begin
....

Illustrator CS2 does not allow to save as AI 4/5/6/7 formats so I cannot
tell you what they look like. Possibly, you are in one of those cases.

Hope this helps.
_______________________________________________________
François Robert
(to mail me, reverse character order in reply address)
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