GIF to EPS Converter

What happens when you convert GIF to EPS

• The GIF is embedded in the EPS losslessly, on a page of one point per pixel, so a 1000 pixel wide image makes artwork about 35 cm wide that scales down cleanly for print.
• The EPS holds the picture as pixels. It does not turn the image into vector shapes, so it will not scale up without softening; for that, convert to SVG, which traces the shapes.
• EPS has no transparency, so transparent areas are filled with white.
• EPS cannot animate, so only the first frame of an animated GIF is kept.

How to convert GIF to EPS online

1. Press "Choose GIF files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to EPS". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each EPS with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert GIF to EPS?

GIF files usually come from short looping animations, reactions and simple graphics. People convert them to EPS because EPS is what many printers, sign makers and older design software still ask for when you send artwork.

In short, GIF is good at what it was made for, and EPS is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. GIF opens and animates in every browser, while EPS does not open in browsers; Illustrator, Inkscape and Affinity Designer open it, and macOS Preview converts it to PDF.

How to convert GIF to EPS on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your GIF files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each EPS is saved to your Downloads folder.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the GIF files from Finder onto the drop zone and the EPS files land in Downloads.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose GIF files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted EPS appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose GIF files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The EPS is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for GIF to EPS

The EPS page is one point per pixel, the usual convention for placed images, so the artwork keeps its pixel dimensions and can be scaled down freely in InDesign, Illustrator or QuarkXPress. Use the Maximum width setting to make it smaller first if a printer has a file size limit.

Because an EPS image has no transparency, transparent areas become white. For a logo that must stay transparent or scale to any size, convert it to SVG instead, which traces it into vector shapes.

GIF vs EPS: the differences

About GIF and EPS files

What is a GIF file?

GIF stores each frame with a palette of at most 256 colours, so photos turn grainy and animations get large fast. Transparency is on or off per pixel, with no soft edges.

What is an EPS file?

An EPS is a small PostScript program that draws one page of artwork, with a bounding box so it can be placed inside other documents. Printers and designers still ask for it, but it is gradually being replaced by PDF and SVG.

GIF to EPS not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the EPS is always the right way up.
• Transparent areas turned white. EPS cannot store transparency; convert to PNG or WebP instead if you need it.

Convert GIF to EPS from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts GIF to EPS in one line:

magick input.gif output.eps

To convert every GIF in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format eps *.gif. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.