[Image-SIG] language lawyer needed: PIL fails on Adobe Illustrator EPS...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Haven't checked the DSC spec in ages, but given your observation, it'd
probably make sense to skip all non-DSC comments no matter what the
spec actually says.  Can you provide a patch (or a sample file)?

</F>

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> I think I need a language lawyer.  I'm finding that PIL 1.1.7 can't
> import EPS files output by Adobe Illustrator.  It chokes on the
> following sequence of lines in the header:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
> %%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(R) 8.0
> %%AI8_CreatorVersion: 13.0.0
> %%For: (Administrator) ()
> %%CreationDate: 8/20/2008 6:47 PM
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 2801 2801
> %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 2800.5 2800.5
> %%DocumentProcessColors: Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset Adobe_level2_AI5 1.2 0
> %%+ procset AGM_Gradient 1.0 0
> %%+ procset Adobe_ColorImage_AI6 1.3 0
> %%+ procset Adobe_Illustrator_AI5 1.3 0
> %%+ procset Adobe_pattern_AI5 1.0 0
> %%+ procset Adobe_cshow 2.0 8
> %%+ procset Adobe_shading_AI8 1.0 0
> %AI5_FileFormat 4.0
> %AI3_ColorUsage: Color
> %AI3_IncludePlacedImages
> [...]
>
> When I look at it with pdb, the problem seems to be the %AI5 and %AI3
> lines -- they don't match the header line template, though I believe
> they are valid Postscript comments:
>
> (Pdb) !Image.open("/project/uplib/samples/postscript/badfoo.eps")
> !Image.open("/project/uplib/samples/postscript/badfoo.eps")
> *** IOError: bad EPS header
> (Pdb) l
> 201                         if k[:8] == "PS-Adobe":
> 202                             self.info[k[:8]] = k[9:]
> 203                         else:
> 204                             self.info[k] = ""
> 205                     else:
> 206  ->                     raise IOError, "bad EPS header"
> 207
> 208                 s = fp.readline()
> 209
> 210                 if s[:1] != "%":
> 211                     break
> (Pdb) p s
> '%AI3_ColorUsage: Color'
> (Pdb) field
> <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x4798a0>
> (Pdb) field.match(s)
> (Pdb) ^D
>
> So, are Postscript comments allowed in the DSC headers?  That is, is
> this a PIL bug or an Illustrator bug.
>
> Bill
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