What is EPS?

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What is EPS?

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) is a PostScript exchange format. It is a single page PostScript file that usually describes an illustration. The EPS file can contain any combination of text, graphics, and images. An EPS file is basically the same as any other PostScript language page description, but is encapsulated to travel well. Most drawing applications and DTP packages can save files in EPS format.

EPS files can contain an image preview so that systems that can't render PostScript directly can at least display a crude representation of what the graphic will look like. There are three preview formats: Mac (PICT), IBM (TIFF), and a platform independent preview called EPSI.