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From: rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman)
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Subject: Re: Why mac preview app throws an error to open eps file
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:34:40 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <76da12dc-7c3c-4786-98f7-ca1d36f88314@googlegroups.com>,
Andy  <er.avpatel@gmail.com> wrote:
>I've created eps file which perfectly open on win/linux using
>ghostview application but it fails on mac using default preview app. 
>
>Error on mac: 'The postscript file 'foo.eps' could not be converted to
>a PDF file'
>
>Investigation:
>   ...[snip]...
>* Any idea on this behavior of Mac preview app???

Apple's preview app is a handy tool for viewing several flavours of
graphic files but it isn't a full featured PostScript RIP.

When it fails just use a more robust viewer, i.e. in this case use
Ghostscript.

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