Wanted to share a tip that saved mine an my partners butts tonite on a last minute project deadline tonite.
We needed a vector logo file to finish up the project and the client sent over an Illustrator EPS for us to use. Unfortunately, when we tried to open the file Illustrator informed us the file could not be opened because it was created using a newer version of Illustrator...
We thought about opening the file in Photoshop, which would have worked fine... but since the file was for a print project, we were concerned about colorshift issues, so it had to be a vector conversion.
I remembered Mac Preview app could open just about any filetype, including EPS... My solution was to open the file in Preview and save out as a PDF with the hope that it would maintain editability..
Luckily that was just the case. I was able to open the file in illustrator with full vector editing capabilities
