On Tuesday, 4 November 2003 8:28, Craig Ringer wrote: > > One reason for the ubiquity of EPS files in DTP is there is another DTP > > application which historically had poor support for TIFF and other > > bitmap image files, but does have good support for EPS import. So, many > > DTP users habitually create EPS files from bitmap images from Photoshop > > or others. > > It's also still useful when you need a clipping path embedded in an > image. We use EPS images a LOT here for that reason. Does TIFF support > embedded clipping paths? I expect that Quark wouldn't be able to use it > even if the file format did support it, of course :-( > > Craig Ringer
But it does, I use clipping paths from TIFF images in Quark 4 on a daily basis. Of course it works also with clipping paths from EPS and JPEG files...
