photoshop to illustrator help

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Paul_Milner
Apr 25, 2005
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Hi
We are having a brochure printed I have done the artwork in photoshop 7 but the printers prefare (don’t know why) to have the artwork in illustrator but when I open the photoshop file in illustrator all of the layers are flattened into one.Will this make a difference to how the artwork can be reproduced/printed/
Paul M
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Rene_Walling
Apr 25, 2005
The best thing to do to avoid surprises may be to flatten the image in PS (save it as a copy!) so you can see the effects of flattening before placing the file in AI
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BobLevine
Apr 25, 2005
Go back to the printer and ask if they’ll take a PDF.

Bob
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Paul_Milner
Apr 25, 2005
Hi
If I go the pdf route should I flatten the image or keep the layers Paul M
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BobLevine
Apr 25, 2005
Save as PSD then use the file save as to save the PDF. Turn off layers, but embed text and vectors.

Bob
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prancer
Apr 25, 2005
Use your export. It’s under file. Hope that helps.
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goodidea1950SPAM-SPAM
Apr 25, 2005
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: Hi
: We are having a brochure printed I have done the artwork in photoshop 7 but the printers prefare (don’t know why) to have the artwork in illustrator but when I open the photoshop file in illustrator all of the layers are flattened into one.Will this make a difference to how the artwork can be reproduced/printed/
: Paul M

That’s interesting because you have to deal with trapping and other issues which, on the surface, seem to handled
much better with Photoshop in native format being brought into another program by the people who understand the
printing process, your printers. The type however would
be better handled by Illustrator or a page layout program like "In Design" or Pagemaker or Quark. Is it a 4 color press? Do you have spot color? Do the graphics come
close to or overlap the graphics? which would necessitate a knockout and trapping. It would be interesting to hear what your printer gives as a reason for preferring Illustrator files. Please post. Thanks.

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