Convert EPS to JPG
Almost nobody chooses JPG for a logo. They choose it because a supplier portal, a job application or a marketplace listing rejects everything else, and the file they were given is an EPS that will not open at all. This turns one into the other, and is honest about the two things it costs.
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What it does
- Rendered at 150 dpi, not the default 72
- Transparency composited onto white, deliberately
- Encoded at quality 82, a number we publish
- Nothing to install
How to use EPS to JPG
- 1
Add the EPS
Drop it in. Ghostscript reads the PostScript, which is why no design software is needed.
- 2
Rendered, then encoded
Rasterized at 150 dpi, transparent areas filled with white, then encoded as JPEG at quality 82.
- 3
Download the JPG
Ready for whichever form insisted on it.
How it works
Ghostscript interprets the PostScript at 150 dpi with its sandbox enabled. Transparent pixels are composited onto white and the alpha channel removed, then the image is encoded as JPEG at quality 82.
The wrong format for the right reason
It is worth naming plainly what this conversion is for, because the format pair is a poor one on the merits.
EPS carries vector artwork: logos, diagrams, technical figures, academic plots. JPEG is a photographic codec. Putting the first into the second gives away scalability, transparency, and a little edge quality, and gains nothing except acceptance.
That acceptance is the whole point. Supplier portals, application forms, marketplace listings and older content management systems routinely accept JPEG and nothing else. The file you were handed is an EPS. The form wants a JPG. Everything else is commentary.
If the form's list includes PNG, take PNG — /eps-to-png keeps the edges clean and the transparency real.
Two losses, in order
Rasterization. The drawing becomes a grid of pixels at 150 dpi. Beyond that grid there is no more detail, no matter how much the image is enlarged afterwards. The EPS still has the geometry; the JPG does not.
Encoding. JPEG then discards information within the grid. On a photograph this is imperceptible at quality 82. On a hard boundary between two flat colors — the defining feature of logo artwork — it shows as a faint softening along the edge, and it compounds every time the file is re-saved.
If you need it larger
Render bigger from the source, do not enlarge the result. /eps-to-pdf keeps the drawing as vectors — the output PDF embeds no images at all — and can be rendered at any size afterwards, or given directly to a printer.
Why you were sent an EPS at all
It helps to know, because it tells you what else is probably in the folder.
EPS was the interchange format for print artwork from the late 1980s until PDF displaced it, and brand guidelines written in that era still specify it. Agencies deliver logo packs as EPS because that is what the last twenty specifications asked for, and because an EPS is genuinely resolution independent — the right thing to hand a printer who might use it at any size.
So a brand pack containing an EPS very often contains other formats too, in a subfolder someone did not open. Before converting, look for a PNG or an SVG alongside it. If there is an SVG, that is the better source for anything going on the web, and this site converts from it directly.
Examples
A logo for a supplier portal
Portals that accept "JPEG or PNG only" are the reason this conversion exists. If PNG is on that list, prefer it.
A figure for a form
Small, universally accepted, and good enough for a document that will be read on a screen.
Frequently asked questions
Should I use PNG instead?
Almost certainly, if it is allowed. EPS artwork is nearly always logos, diagrams or line drawings — flat colors and hard edges, which is exactly what JPEG handles worst. JPEG was designed for photographs and compresses by discarding detail that the eye misses in continuous tone; along a sharp boundary between two flat colors it produces a faint halo instead. /eps-to-png has none of that, plus real transparency. Use JPG when something insists.
What happened to the transparent background?
It became white. JPEG has no alpha channel, so every converter must put something behind a see-through pixel. White is chosen here and stated; tools that give you a logo on a black rectangle are not choosing black, they simply are not choosing, and black is what the raw pixel data underneath tends to be.
How big will the JPG be in pixels?
The EPS bounding box, in points, rendered at 150 dpi — a little over twice the nominal size. A 200 by 150 point drawing becomes 417 by 313 pixels, measured. The usual 72 dpi default would give 200 by 150, which is the reason vector conversions so often come back too small to use.
What quality is the JPEG?
82 on the 0-100 scale, stated because it is checkable and because a converter quietly using 60 is how visible blocking appears in line art. At 82 the loss is invisible in photographs and occasionally noticeable on thin lines and small text.
Does my file leave my computer?
Yes. PostScript is a programming language and running it safely needs Ghostscript's sandbox, which is a server job rather than a browser one. Your file and the result are both deleted within 30 minutes by a timer, and nothing is stored, indexed or kept against an account of any kind.
Further reading
- We Re-Saved a JPEG Twenty Times and Nothing HappenedEveryone has heard that a JPEG gets worse every time you open and save it, and most people have seen the artwork made by re-saving an image five hundred times to prove it. So we measured it properly. Re-saving at the same quality, twenty times, changed the image by nothing at all — and then we found the conditions where it degrades badly.
- OCR Reads Nothing at 72 DPI and Everything at 150The standard advice for scanning documents you intend to run through OCR is 300 DPI. We measured where the accuracy actually changes, and it is not a gentle curve with 300 comfortably on the good end. It is a cliff between 96 and 150, and everything above 150 was identical.