The PostScript language was originally designed only for sending to a printer, but PostScript’s ability to scale and translate has made it a standard graphic format.
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) files have become a standard format for importing and exporting PostScript language files among applications in a variety of heterogenous environments. The device-independent nature of the PostScript language makes it an excellent interchange format.
The PDF format is very much like the encapsulated postscript with the handling of both raster and vector data and with its stable abilities over various platforms it has developed an interface of communication with its popularity
Printing with EPS
For file transferring purposes, the best translations are those handled by the application itself or any relatives of it in other operating systems. Vector object EPS images are more difficult to translate between applications and operating systems than the EPS images containing raster bitmaps.
The EPS file supports all colour variations and can contain any combination of text, vector illustrations and raster images.
EPS files contain all of the vector and bitmap information necessary to image a single page. The EPS file usually has a graphic screen preview, which is typically a low-resolution TIFF, although some software applications allow you to choose what format the header graphic can be.
