"Placing" in AI and "embedding"

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Marie_Maier
Oct 19, 2006
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I’ve have some printing issues that occurred because I drew images in PS7 and then "placed" them in AI in order to avoid the dumb, opaque white box-background from copy-paste.

In a large poster I burned for the printer, he complained that many individual files were not there. It turns out that every drawing I "placed" was not "embedded" and I had to send individual .psd files of all needed.

Why are "placed" files not "embedded" in AI and what am I not doing to make them so?

Thanks much for info—I’m anxious to learn what I’m missing…..mm
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Bob Levine
Oct 19, 2006
That’s an Illustrator issue, not an Photoshop issue.

The answer is to uncheck the link choice when placing. You could of course have saved yourself all of this trouble by simply saving as PDF from Illustrator.

Bob
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Bernie
Oct 19, 2006
IIRC, there is also an option to include linked file when saving your Illustrator document
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Marie_Maier
Oct 20, 2006
Thanks guys, sorry I went to the wrong forum. The printer insists on .psd files, not pdf’s…..

Robert, what is the "link choice"…..if ya’ can’t (or shouldn’t) answer I’ll poke my head over to AI…..
An CN, where/what is the "option to include linked file"? As you can guess, I’m really learning AI and had to jump right into it….thank you much….mm
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Bob Levine
Oct 20, 2006
When you hit file place in AI, there’s a check box for linking the graphic. Make sure it’s not checked.

FWIW, I’d be looking for a new printer. Any printer requiring native Photoshop (or Illustrator) files is one to be avoided at all cost.

I’ll also point out that if you save your AI files with PDF compatibility, they can be opened in Acrobat/Reader quite nicely and everything will be there.

Bob
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LenHewitt
Oct 20, 2006
Marie,

.The printer insists on .psd files, not pdf’s<<

The .pdf doesn’t replace the .PSDs – it replaces the .ai or .eps that you are sending to the printer.
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Bernie
Oct 20, 2006
An CN, where/what is the "option to include linked file"? As you can guess, I’m really learning AI and had to jump right into it….thank you much….mm

I said when saving hte file. Look at the save options.

Explore the interface!
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Bob Levine
Oct 20, 2006
You know, we haven’t established what version of AI is being used here. I just noticed Marie is still using PS 7.0.

Bob
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Marie_Maier
Oct 20, 2006
I’m using AI 10. ( and can’t afford CS……)
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Bob Levine
Oct 20, 2006
Can’t remember that far back. You might want to pop over to the Illy forum.

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Bernie
Oct 21, 2006
I seem to recall that for older versions of AI, the way I embedded was to save as an EPS file (don’t know if it was for version 10 or a previous one
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Bob Levine
Oct 21, 2006
At version 10 I would save as PDF.

Bob
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Marie_Maier
Oct 23, 2006
Thanks guys—printer doesn’t like pdf’s–wants only psd’s. I’ll be trying to save work as pdf’s and export it, open it in PS and re-save as psd. The first one worked fine, but I haven’t tried it with text yet….mm
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Bob Levine
Oct 23, 2006
I strongly suggest you find another printer. This one is ill-equipped for the 21st century. You’re jumping through way too many hoops for this guy and you’re sacrificing quality at the same time.

Bob

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