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You downloaded a logo from a stock site or received a file from a print shop, and it's an EPS. The format dates back to 1992, built on Adobe's PostScript page-description language, and for over a decade it was how vector graphics moved between applications. Then PDF arrived and did everything EPS did, plus more, plus better.
Yet EPS persists — stubbornly, everywhere. Legacy workflows depend on it. Stock graphics sites still ship it. Print shops still accept it. The format is essentially a single-page PostScript program with a bounding box, which means it's technically code. On ancient systems this was a genuine security concern. Modern tools sandbox it properly, but it's worth knowing that an EPS file is closer to a script than to an image.
Illustrator (subscription) handles EPS natively. Affinity Designer ($70) opens most EPS files well. Inkscape (free) manages simpler files. Ghostscript (free, command-line) can render EPS to other formats. For print work, EPS still gets the job done. For anything new, save as PDF instead — it's the format EPS would be if it were invented today.