<img src="test.eps"> problem viewing.

[ggeorgiou01]

Hi all,

I have a problem, where my customers have to upload product images in an .eps format. But when I come to displaying the file on the web page, <img src="test.eps"> It doesnt seem to want to display the image.

Is there a known problem in displaying an .eps file with the img tag ?! ...Does anybody know of a work around ?

Thanks,
George

 

[BabyJeffy]

You can only display the images in a browser if that browser knows how to display the images in the first place. Browsers know how to read and display GIF, JPEG and PNG "out of the box". They do not know anything about EPS files. You'll have to parse them server-side into a format that the browsers can handle.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[ggeorgiou01]

Firstly thank you for the reply.

So to get around my problem, would the best solution be..

When a user uploads a .eps file, to somehow convert them to either a .gif or .jpeg file on the upload event ?

 

[Foamcow]

To convert an EPS you will need to use something like ImageMagick and Ghostscript + a server side language such as PHP or PERL to handle the conversion.

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