Re: TIFF vs EPS
Re: TIFF vs EPS
- Subject: Re: TIFF vs EPS
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:02:11 -0700
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I requested that our service bureau begin to save our files in the
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TIFF format instead of the EPS format. From what I gathered
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from this list, the TIFF format better supports color profiles.
There is essentially no difference. Both support embedded ICC profiles.
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They
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responded that there is no difference between EPS and TIFF and
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that TIFFs are 10 times larger than EPS files.
Either they don't know what they are talking about or they are fibbing.
An EPS file will actually be slightly larger because a separate preview
has to be saved in the file (which is what page layout applications use
when you place the image), where as TIFF doesn't need a preview. Page
layout apps generate a preview for TIFFs on the fly.
The size difference is maybe 1% to 5% (with EPS being the larger).
I prefer TIFF for bitmaps. I only use EPS for vector graphics and when I
have a clipping path. TIFFs support clipping paths but QuarkXPress
doesn't like them as much as when they are in EPS files. And QuarkXPress
doesn't like Photoshop 6 clipping paths in TIFFs at all. I haven't tried
Photoshop 6 clipping paths in EPS files yet.
Chris Murphy