A light JPG of the drawing inside the EPS, cropped to its bounding box and sized by the dpi.
Swap: JPG to EPSAn EPS is a PostScript page meant for print. A JPG is the lightest picture that still looks right everywhere.
An EPS cannot be attached to a chat, pasted into a slide or shown in a browser tab. A JPG can, and it is the format phones, printers, marketplaces and office suites have handled without a thought for thirty years. The artwork does not change; only its wrapper does.
A rendition of the same drawing as JPG is usually a fraction of the PNG, because the compression throws away detail the eye does not miss. For a catalogue entry, a thumbnail, a chat preview or an email, that difference in weight is the whole reason to pick this page over EPS to PNG.
Sending an EPS to a client who has no editor is a dead end. Sending a JPG of it gets a reply. Approvals, annotations and the "is this the right logo?" question all happen faster with a picture, and the EPS stays the master file for the printer.
One picture of the drawing, measured by the bounding box the EPS declares.
The EPS states how much room its artwork needs, and that rectangle becomes the image. There is no page around the drawing and no margin to crop by hand, so what you see is the design and nothing else — which is exactly what a placed logo or a sticker preview should look like.
JPG has no transparency, and an EPS describes ink on paper anyway, so the artwork is flattened onto white. Anything the drawing left open — the counters of a letter, the space inside a ring — stays white rather than see-through.
JPG is lossy: thin rules, small text and the boundary between two flat colours pick up a faint fringe that a zoom will find. At 150 dpi and above this is invisible on screen, and it is the price of a file several times smaller than the lossless version.
A drawing EPS converts to a single JPG that carries the name of the upload. A multi-page PostScript print file is rendered from its first page, so no archive is produced and nothing has to be unzipped.
The resolution sets the pixel size of the JPG, and with it how much detail the compression has to work with.
One pixel per point of the drawing: a 200 × 100 pt logo becomes 200 × 100 px. Fine for a preview, a list of thumbnails or a picture shown at its natural size, and the lightest of the three. Small type may need a zoom to read.
The default, and twice the detail in each direction: the same logo becomes 417 × 208 px. Sharp on screen, readable at 100%, and small enough to attach to an email, which is why most conversions belong here.
833 × 417 px for the same drawing, the density a print service expects. JPG compresses well so the file does not explode, but lossy compression and small printed text are not friends: for real print work the PNG or the vector file is the safer answer.
No single page is rendered past 40 megapixels. A poster-sized EPS asked for at 300 dpi comes back at a lower resolution with a warning that names the dpi actually used, so one file can never fill the server or stall your download.
A PostScript file can lean on fonts and on sheer volume that the file itself does not carry.
Most EPS files ask for typefaces by name instead of embedding them. If the server does not have that face, the letters are drawn in the nearest one it does have, and the spacing of a headline can move by a few percent. The cure is in the source application: outline the text before exporting, and every letter becomes an exact shape.
A drawing with tens of thousands of paths, a mesh gradient or a big embedded bitmap can take longer than the conversion is allowed and is stopped with a message instead of a partial picture. Ask the source application for a PDF or an SVG export of the same artwork and the conversion takes a fraction of the time.
Three steps, no account and nothing to install.
Drag it onto the box or click to choose it. One file per run, up to 25 MB. Files ending in
.eps or .ps are accepted even when the browser labels them as a
generic binary, which is how most PostScript arrives.
150 dpi is preselected and is the right answer for a screen. Move to 72 dpi for a thumbnail or a long list of previews, and to 300 dpi only when the picture is going somewhere that prints it. The format is already fixed to JPG on this page.
The picture saves with the name of your upload and a .jpg extension, cropped to the artwork, ready to be attached, uploaded or pasted.
A minute of preparation saves a second conversion.
Logos with fine rules, diagrams, small labels and anything that will be enlarged belong in a lossless format. EPS to PNG renders the same page with every pixel kept exactly as it was drawn.
The JPG is a snapshot, not a master file: it cannot be re-scaled without blurring and its text cannot be edited. If the artwork may be printed again, keep the EPS, or turn it into an SVG with EPS to SVG so the shapes survive.
A 300 dpi rendition of a detailed drawing can still be a few megabytes. Running it through the JPG compressor lowers the quality a notch and usually halves the size, which is the difference between an attachment that sends and one that does not.
Yes. Converting costs nothing and there is no account, no trial and no watermark on the picture. A short rate limit keeps one visitor from using up the whole server, and that is the only restriction.
JPG when the picture only has to be looked at and the file should be small: previews, catalogue images, chat attachments, slides. PNG when the edges matter or the image will be enlarged — it is lossless, so thin rules and small text stay crisp, and the file is several times heavier for the same drawing.
No. The conversion happens on the server, so neither Illustrator nor anything else has to be installed on your machine. Any EPS or PS file up to 25 MB is accepted, including documents saved by design tools before PDF became the standard.
Each upload may be 25 MB, one file per run, because the whole file is held while it is rendered. A drawing that large is usually a page with an embedded photo; the files that reach the time limit are the ones with an extreme number of paths, and those stop with a message rather than a partial picture.
Files are processed on our server and not stored. The EPS is opened once, the JPG is written to the response and nothing is kept afterwards, so the download that reaches your browser is the only copy of the result.
