Eps

Well, Mac OS X didn't support EPS/PS images in Preview or TextEdit until 10.3.x. Before that you would have needed a third party app to help with those types of images (I use PStill which you can set up as a service on older versions of Mac OS X to convert EPS/PS graphics when an app attempts to read them... which is cool, except that it also did it with the Finder when using...

I think RTFD is great for creating simple manuals for co-workers. Grab screenshots, paste them into your little manual. You can simply make PDFs at the end for sending them around and keep the RTFD for later changes. Very simple - much less hassle than doing the same in Word or InDesign. About EPS/PS files in RTFD: At least in Mac OS X (Client 10.0 onward), RTFD has stayed...

I didn't respond to simbalala's post for the very reason that I didn't want to pull this off topic (though I had a post composed... you should have seen it, it was really long and everything :D ), even though I hardly think what Apple has added so far constitutes bloat. The thing about the RTFD format (or package) is that TextEdit just drops whatever you put into it into...

that will enable me to print eps files through Quark? ...

for some reason now when I select an eps (with 'hide Bounding Box' selected), I can't see the outline of the image or anything to tell me that it's selected. I can only tell when I delete it to make sure it's selected. How do I fix this?

1. Use pdf/x-1a, it will catch any errors before they happen. If it rips back to 4 and your shadows are intact then you're golden. 2. If you outline your ID text you'll have to save one file to edit and one for print/ripping. I'd rather just have one ID file as my super file. 3. eps are smaller than tif and you get to keep the vector data for quicker RIP and printing

Wow, lots of questions! :) 1. The shadow will either get translated to 4.0 Acrobat pdf or you'll get an error, in which case pdf/x-1a will let you know what that error is before creating the pdf. 2. You could create outlines in ID, but then you have to save another version of the file (so you can make edits to text later). 3. Big flattened tiff is a huge file, though...

Also, why print from EPS as opposed to just making a big flattened TIFF? ...

Just export a pdf/x-1a file from InDesign and your file will be saved as Acrobat 4 and should catch any errors before ripping. Should work better in quark. InDesign drop shadows can be a bit problematic when printing, so avoid them whenever you can. You can open the pdf in illustrator (CS) and convert to outlines and save out an eps file for print (all images are...

to import the EPS that you exported in the previous step. ...