Format
Encapsulated PostScript File Format
Summary
- Name
- Encapsulated PostScript File Format
- Version
- 1.2
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/postscript
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript
- PUID: fmt/122
- Format type
- Page Description
- Disclosure
- Full
- Description
- Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) is a page description format, developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Version 1.2, the first version of the format, was developed in 1987. 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.
- File extensions
-
eps,epsf - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
EPS 1.2
- Note
- Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2(.|..)
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
252150532D41646F62652D322E3020455053462D312E32(0D|0A|0D0A|0A0D)- Endianness
- None
EPS 1.2 Preview
- Note
- Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: ÅÐÓÆ Variable, magic bytes: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2(.|..)
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
252150532D41646F62652D322E3020455053462D312E32(0D|0A|0D0A|0A0D)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V114
- Release date
- 22 August 2023
Encapsulated PostScript File Format 1.2: Added description of magic bytes. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).
-
Updated in V49
- Release date
- 5 April 2011
Encapsulated PostScript File Format 1.2: Priority information changed to avoid potential clash with Cascading Style Sheet and EndNote Import File identifications.