: How to select and delete the border in an EPS file in Adobe Illustrator I have a graphic CS5 eps here that draws a honeycomb lattice. But I have a problem: When I selected it, I found that

@Kevin459

Look at your Layers. Click on the little circle next to each layer to highlight that specific layer and see which one it is.

Looking at your file, it is immediately obvious that it is the top layer:



To select individual points you can use the Direct Selection Tool.. Just click on it, and then click and drag from anywhere on your artboard to select all points within your selection.

To Select and Delete the border..


Use the Direct Selection Tool.
Click any unoccupied space on the artboard to deselect anything that might be selected.
Select each anchor point of the border individually or click on the circle next to the top layer (of the third layer group) in the Layers panel.
Press Delete


It will reveal the following image, I'm not going to investigate further to find out why.

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@Samaraweera207

I opened it in Photoshop and there was no border nor background. It looks like you're using Illustrator. Illustrator CS5, what I use, won't open the file, says it was created by a newer version, so I can't check, but what you might try is either the Object>Expand--if it is a vector image--and then ungroup the object; or you could do a live trace and ungroup if it isn't actually vector--that works for simple images like this one.

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@Nimeshi706

The .eps file is a vector file and not a "ps graphic".

You can see the vector construction in the wireframe (within Illustrator):



You'll need a vector editing application to effectively remove the extra lines and anchors.

You can try using Inkscape to open the EPS and remove the extra objects but you won't be able to effectively remove anything with Photoshop alone. At least not if you wish to keep the file as a vector Smart Object within Photoshop.

Note: That particular eps was generated by Illustrator CC and it would appear that only Illustrator CC will open it. I'm unable to open the EPS with any older version of Illustrator. Therefore, Inkscape may also have a problem opening that eps file.

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