off-topic: MIME type for EPS?

off-topic: MIME type for EPS?

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Is there a MIME content-type for Encapsulated Postscript?  What is it?

If there is none, should one use application/postscript instead, or
application/octet-stream? 

kai
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Re: off-topic: MIME type for EPS?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE:

> Is there a MIME content-type for Encapsulated Postscript?  What is it?
> If there is none, should one use application/postscript instead, or
> application/octet-stream? 

application/postscript looks like the logical choice.  The type was
defined in the draft base MIME definition RFC1522.  I don't know where 
it finally ended up.

Re: off-topic: MIME type for EPS?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:

>>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE:
>> Is there a MIME content-type for Encapsulated Postscript?  What is it?
>> If there is none, should one use application/postscript instead, or
>> application/octet-stream? 

> application/postscript looks like the logical choice.  The type was
> defined in the draft base MIME definition RFC1522.  I don't know where 
> it finally ended up.

RFC2046, section 4.5.2.  It doesn't seem to mention EPS with a word.

There isn't strictly speaking any difference between EPS and PS.  The
only difference, is that an EPS page has a bounding box for the
rendered result in a comment.

Then of course, there's EPSI which has both that bounding box and a
TIFF low-res rendering...

Why do you need to differ between EPS and PS?  Eg. GhostScript will
swallow both without complaining.

Re: off-topic: MIME type for EPS?

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

  > Why do you need to differ between EPS and PS?  Eg. GhostScript
  > will swallow both without complaining.

I think I don't need to differ between EPS and PS.  So I'll use
application/postscript.

Thanks,
kai
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Re: off-topic: MIME type for EPS?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Is there a MIME content-type for Encapsulated Postscript?  What is it?
> 
> If there is none, should one use application/postscript instead, or
> application/octet-stream? 

Well, eps is a subset of ps, so I think application/postscript would
be ok, wouldn't it?

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