Re: placing .eps files into lout

[Mark Hadfield]

> The problem seems to be that AI saves a thumbnail image -- if you set
> the save options to have no thumbnail you might be OK. It was some time
> ago that I did this but I did find that by setting the save as options
> correctly I could get a usable eps file. (In the worst case you can
> actually edit the file in a plain text editor and chop out the binary
> stuff...)

As others have pointed out, these thumbnails are usually called preview
images.

There's a program called epstool that's bundled with GSview
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) and can remove (or add) preview images.

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Mark Hadfield
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