by
>: EPS is listed as a supported format for P4W 4.5 Graphic fields. However,
>: When I try to paste an .eps file into a graphic field, the status bar says
>: "The EPS file is formatted incorrectly" and attempts to do the same from
>: an ObjectPAL script yields the error "Trying to store incompatible data type".
>: I have tried this with several different EPS files, output from different
>: programs, (dos, windows, and unix utilities), but paradox doesn't like any
>: of it.
>and Kasey Chang answered:
>Unfortunately there are so many flavors of eps no one knows which one
>works any more... Each Mac programs seems to have its own (Adobe flavor,
>Aldus flavor, etc.) as well as with tiff preview, without, and so on.
>:-\ And Borland never specified WHICH flavor they like.
>I *suspect* it only takes the TIFF preview one. Bob (Lenarcik)? Would
>you know something about this?
>--
then we refuse to import it. We also look for a 4-byte signature at the
beginning of the EPS header, (0xC5,0xD0,0xD3,0xC6, I think), but I don't recall
the exact meaning of that at the moment. Check your EPS file format spec.
--Alex
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