What is a .eps file?
application/postscript
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) is a single-page PostScript program restricted enough that another document can place it as a picture. The spec requires a `%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0` header and a `%%BoundingBox` comment giving the artwork's extent, and forbids operators that would disturb the host page. Windows files often begin instead with a 30-byte binary header (`C5 D0 D3 C6`) indexing an appended TIFF or WMF preview — the reason a placed EPS looks coarse on screen yet prints sharply. Adobe now steers new work to PDF and SVG.
How to use a .eps file
Use an example EPS to test PostScript rasterization, bounding-box handling, and converters to PDF or SVG — checking that a binary DOS-EPS header and its preview are skipped rather than parsed, and treating the PostScript itself as untrusted code: Office turned its EPS filter off in 2017 over exactly that.