Format
Encapsulated PostScript File Format
Summary
- Name
- Encapsulated PostScript File Format
- Version
- 2.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/postscript
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript
- PUID: fmt/123
- Format type
- Page Description
- Disclosure
- Full
- Description
- Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) is a page description format, developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Version 2.0, the second version of the format, was developed in 1989. An EPS file comprises a header section followed by a PostScript document. An EPS can optionally include a preview raster image, in which case a binary header is prepended to the header.
- Release date
- 16 Jan 1989
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
eps,epsf - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
- Is previous version of
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
EPS 2.0
- Description
- Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: %!PS-Adobe-2{0-3}EPSF-2{0-2}.
- Provenance
- 08/2023 (v.113) - Description of magic bytes for signature added. Researched internally.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
252150532D41646F62652D32{0-3}455053462D32{0-2}0A- Endianness
- None
EPS 2.0 Preview
- Description
- Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: ÅÐÓÆ Variable: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0(.|..)
- Provenance
- 08/2023 (v.113) - Description of magic bytes for signature added. Researched internally.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
C5D0D3C6- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Variable
- Offset
- None
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
252150532D41646F62652D322E3020455053462D322E30(0D|0A|0D0A|0A0D)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V114
- Release date
- 22 August 2023
-
Updated
Encapsulated PostScript File Format 2.0: Added description of magic bytes. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).
-
V109
- Release date
- 1 November 2022
-
Updated
Encapsulated PostScript File Format v2.0: Adjusted signature to allow for 3 wildcard bytes in the EPS 2.0 signature instead of 2. Submitted by Preservica.
-
V103
- Release date
- 11 March 2022
-
Updated
Encapsulated PostScript File Format: Amended to allow for magic bytes to be Adobe-2 or Adobe-2.0. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.
-
V49
- Release date
- 5 April 2011
-
Updated
Encapsulated PostScript File Format 2.0: Priority information changed to avoid potential clash with Cascading Style Sheet and EndNote Import File identifications.
External Links
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