EPS & file format problems

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Tiemen Rapati
Jul 15, 2004
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Sob.

I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested that it should be a *Vector file*. They pronounce the word as though it’s something mysterious and spooky, which somehow makes me suspect they don’t really know much about this whole business.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of shape layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to work on in Illustrator.

Today I got phoned by them telling me they could do nothing with my files. They needed *Veecctooor Fiiiiles* and the was not… The EPS they could not open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error will be
of the same nature.

How can I export/ convert my documents they will be able to open them? She told me they only have (an old version of) CorelDraw, PS5, Illustrator
8.

Thanks in advance
This little student

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Waldo
Jul 15, 2004
Tiemen Rapati wrote:
Sob.

I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested that it should be a *Vector file*. They pronounce the word as though it’s something mysterious and spooky, which somehow makes me suspect they don’t really know much about this whole business.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of shape layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to work on in Illustrator.

Today I got phoned by them telling me they could do nothing with my files. They needed *Veecctooor Fiiiiles* and the was not… The EPS they could not open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error will be
of the same nature.

How can I export/ convert my documents they will be able to open them? She told me they only have (an old version of) CorelDraw, PS5, Illustrator
8.

Thanks in advance
This little student

They want the COMPLETE design in Vector, Photoshop is not really suited for that purpose as it has very limited vector capabilities.

I don’t know about your creative work in Photoshop, if you used some vector, but if everything is vector, you could export the paths to Illustrator. Exported paths don’t have any properties (e.g. color, linewidth) by default, so you’ll need to do the color work again in Illustrator.

Once everything is okay in Illustrator, you can just save to an older version of EPS, e.g. version 8, and send that to them.

The best way is to start such jobs from scratch in
Illustrator/CorelDraw/Freehand.

If your artwork is not completely vector, you can start either from scratch in the correct tool or maybe you can use select color range to select each color and convert the selection to a path and export afterwards.

If you already did it completely in vector, you may consider saving as PDF (NOT from Photoshop, but from Illustrator!!!). PostScript/EPS causes very often errors. They should be able to do something with that, they could turn PDF into EPS with Acrobat/Ghostscript if they really want to.

Waldo
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toosano
Jul 15, 2004
You definitely have some gumbies in that shop. The main problem you have is that the guy in the shop knows how to do nothing else. Do you have some fonts in your logo that is freaking them out? As Waldo said, you should be able to supply them with a high resolution pdf file, if they’re worth their salt. That’s all I supply anybody, anymore. I bet if you say you’ll take your biz elsewhere, you’d be surprised with what they can do all of a sudden.
I do a lot of stuff in Corel and it’s easy to export/create a pdf file in curves/vector art. Probably why that’s what they want.

Convert text to paths, curves or outlines (vector art)

"Tiemen Rapati" wrote in message
Sob.

I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested
that
it should be a *Vector file*. They pronounce the word as though it’s something mysterious and spooky, which somehow makes me suspect they don’t really know much about this whole business.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of shape layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to
work
on in Illustrator.

Today I got phoned by them telling me they could do nothing with my files. They needed *Veecctooor Fiiiiles* and the was not… The EPS they could
not
open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error will be
of the same nature.

How can I export/ convert my documents they will be able to open them? She told me they only have (an old version of) CorelDraw, PS5, Illustrator
8.

Thanks in advance
This little student

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Voivod
Jul 15, 2004
in article 40f6b0ca$0$154$, Tiemen Rapati at
wrote on 07/15/2004 9:32 AM:

Sob.

I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested that it should be a *Vector file*. They pronounce the word as though it’s something mysterious and spooky, which somehow makes me suspect they don’t really know much about this whole business.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of shape layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to work on in Illustrator.

Today I got phoned by them telling me they could do nothing with my files. They needed *Veecctooor Fiiiiles* and the was not… The EPS they could not open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error will be
of the same nature.

How can I export/ convert my documents they will be able to open them? She told me they only have (an old version of) CorelDraw, PS5, Illustrator
8.

Thanks in advance
This little student

Save it as an Illustrator 8 file. What’s the problem?
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westin*nospam
Jul 15, 2004
Voivod writes:

in article 40f6b0ca$0$154$, Tiemen Rapati at
wrote on 07/15/2004 9:32 AM:

Sob.

I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested that it should be a *Vector file*. They pronounce the word as though it’s something mysterious and spooky, which somehow makes me suspect they don’t really know much about this whole business.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of shape layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to work on in Illustrator.

Today I got phoned by them telling me they could do nothing with my files. They needed *Veecctooor Fiiiiles* and the was not… The EPS they could not open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error will be
of the same nature.

How can I export/ convert my documents they will be able to open them? She told me they only have (an old version of) CorelDraw, PS5, Illustrator
8.

Thanks in advance
This little student

Save it as an Illustrator 8 file. What’s the problem?

An Illustrator file full of rasterized pixels doesn’t help. As another poster pointed out, the way to do this is in Illustrator. Draw all the graphics, and import images as needed. Give them that file.


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tacitr
Jul 15, 2004
I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested that it should be a *Vector file*.

You’ve already gone down the wrong path. The company was right; logos should always be done as a vector file. To put it bluntly, Photoshop is the wrong tool for the job. You’re trying to use a screwdriver to drive nails.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of shape layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to work on in Illustrator.

If you export the paths to Illustrator, they’ll all come in as blank, unfilled paths; you’ll have to assign fill and stroke information in Illustrator. Once you do this, you will have a file they can use.

The EPS they could not
open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error will
be of the same nature.

Yep, they won’t be able to open the file in Photoshop 5.

They need a vector EPS from Illustrator. Do you have Illustrator?


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Tiemen Rapati
Jul 16, 2004
Thanks. I’ll have a go on illustrator later today.

Something else: I’ve got a reasonably fast workstation, but still it takes absolutely ages to rasterize an EPS. Is that normal? Dimensions of the image I’m talking about: 2800 x 2000 px, CMYK color. Size inside PS. 21,7 MB (logical), as an eps it’s 66,8 MB. It’s got about 26 shape layers. Even rasterizing it to a 1024 x 768 images takes 1+ hour.

PSCS on WinXP, P4 2,6Ghz, 512 DDR RAM.

Thanks,
Tiemen

"Stephen H. Westin" <westin*> wrote in message
Voivod writes:

in article 40f6b0ca$0$154$, Tiemen Rapati
at
wrote on 07/15/2004 9:32 AM:

Sob.

I’ve been spending lots of hours making some nice logo’s for a T-shirt print. The company that would take care of the printing only requested
that
it should be a *Vector file*. They pronounce the word as though it’s something mysterious and spooky, which somehow makes me suspect they
don’t
really know much about this whole business.

But hey, I happily created two documents that entirely consist of
shape
layers and exported/saved them as PSD, EPS and converted some paths to
work
on in Illustrator.

Today I got phoned by them telling me they could do nothing with my
files.
They needed *Veecctooor Fiiiiles* and the was not… The EPS they
could not
open. Some kind of Postscript error. Well, it appeared they had
Photoshop
5.0, which was not yet vector based. Probably the postscript error
will be
of the same nature.

How can I export/ convert my documents they will be able to open them? She told me they only have (an old version of) CorelDraw, PS5,
Illustrator
8.

Thanks in advance
This little student

Save it as an Illustrator 8 file. What’s the problem?

An Illustrator file full of rasterized pixels doesn’t help. As another poster pointed out, the way to do this is in Illustrator. Draw all the graphics, and import images as needed. Give them that file.


-Stephen H. Westin
Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors.

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