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There are a wide range of specialty software applications that can only use EPS files.

It still has very viable uses, especially for older third party applications/uses. What if the client doesn't want to pay for the Adobe subscription and doesn't know anyone who does? If you, yourself, can't generate the format they need, what makes you think they can generate the format they need?ĮPS is not 'dead'. Simply because an SVG file can be opened in an editor and resaved is not a reason to fail to provide viable formats to the client. SVG, EPS, AI, PDF, PSD, JPG, PNG, even GIF. When providing a logo you should provide usable formats for a range of things. Here's a screenshot from Adobe Illustrator showing the Test PDF I created in Inkscape, displaying a semi-transparent gradient fill. In Illustrator, when I examine the fill, it appears as 'non native art', possibly a raster image although I can't be sure, and is contained within a clipping path. I just tested this and it appears to work quite well, although it throws a warning on opening complaining that an 'unknown shading type was encountered', but clicking OK should open the document just fine, and the fill should be semi-transparent. When opened in Illustrator, vector objects within the Inkscape PDF which contain semi-transparent gradients will be maintained. One possible workaround is to export the artwork as a PDF 1.5 from Inkscape. Inkscape can't output an Illustrator EPS. It's not actually possible in a pure EPS format, and is a limitation of the format itself.Īdobe Illustrator EPS files are a bit different, since these also contain the editable Illustrator document as well as the EPS. EPS is an old format with support for full transparency (i.e the background can be tranparent), and also supports the use of clipping paths for transparency around a raster image, but it doesn't support semi-transparent fills, or gradients with semi-transparency.ĭoesn't really matter what software you use.

Failed to load requested file inkscape eps