Adobe Community: how do I get rid of the bounding box? every file I save as .eps has a box around it

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1. Monika Gause,

Mar 17, 2013 7:41 AM in reply to grampy04

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You'd maybe want to show us a screenshot of the artwork and the layer panel.

Why do you save as EPS?

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2. grampy04,

Mar 17, 2013 8:59 AM in reply to Monika Gause

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Here's a screen shot. This thing is driving me NUTS. All I want to do is SHUT

IT OFF!...Not hide it, but actually SHUT IT OFF

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3. Larry G. Schneider,

Mar 17, 2013 10:21 AM in reply to grampy04

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Your screenshot didn't come through. Essentially EPS is an old format which will always have a bounding box and background. If you want a file with a transparent background, you will have to save as a PDF 5 or above or rasterize the file as a Photoshop file, a PNG or a TIFF. All of these raster formats will loose the vector information.

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4. Les ONeill,

Mar 17, 2013 2:30 PM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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Larry G. Schneider wrote:

Essentially EPS is an old format which will always have a bounding box and background.

Well that is just completely erroneous infomation Larry. I have truckloads of EPS files that have 'no backgrounds' i.e. where there was no 'data' in the original, 'nothing' is written to the resultant postscript file, allowing it to be placed over an image/text/background etc. and have that image/text/background show through.

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5. Monika Gause,

Mar 17, 2013 3:16 PM in reply to Les ONeill

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Then please show a screenshot.

There's none in your previous post.

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6. Les ONeill,

Mar 17, 2013 3:41 PM in reply to Monika Gause

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Are you talking to me Monika? I'm not the OP, I was just refuting what I considered misinfomation from Larry. But in case you actually do want to see what I'm talking about, then here ya go

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7. Monika Gause,

Mar 17, 2013 4:01 PM in reply to Les ONeill

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Les ONeill wrote:

Are you talking to me Monika? I'm not the OP,

I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention.

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how do I get rid of the bounding box? every file I save as .eps has a box around it

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