Why use EPS?
Most publishers request either EPS or TIFF formats. If you have a choice, you should always choose EPS. Why? Because EPS is what’s known as a vector format. This means that the image is not made up of pixels, but instead graphic descriptions of lines, fills, text, etc. A vector format has no “size”-it is dimensionless. This means you can shrink it as small as you want, or grow it as big as you want, with absolutely no change in resolution. dpi has no meaning for a vector file. This format is ideal for a graph figure, since there is no degradation of the quality of the figure as it is rescaled. It is also means that when a vector format file is placed in a document, it often first appears at an arbitrary size, and must be scaled to the final desired size. This can often startle, annoy or confuse someone not familiar with the behavior of vector files. The other vector format supported by SigmaPlot is the Windows Metafile format. EPS and PostScript Fonts Note that most publishers that acc
