Problem saving a file in a "usable" format
Not sure if anyone can help with this (and apologies if it's been covered elsewhere, i'm not sure where to start looking), but...
I need to get some simple artwork (vectorised silhouette of a tree, with "flowed" text in a circle around it) off to a printer for an event in about 3 weeks time - they're supposed to take EPS or PDF files according to their site.
A PDF of it exported fine, and can zoom without loss of quality, but they say they can't use it for some reason - their exact wording is "what he needs is a vectorised, editable eps file in black"
The EPS I exported won't open again in Inkscape :-} but does open in Photoshop - but upon zooming, it appears to have turned into a bitmap rather than a vector image.
Can anyone advise of a way to do what they're asking for ? (i'm an absolute newbie with gfx apps unfortunately)
I've uploaded the image as-is to:
http://www.phoenixbbs.co.uk/fodp.svg
...just in case someone has a flash of inspiration and fancies doing me a real big favour and emailing a "corrected" image :-}
inkscape at phoenixbbs.co.uk would do nicely !
Thanks :-)
On 8/12/07, Colin Wilson <phoenixbbs@...2327...> wrote:
A PDF of it exported fine, and can zoom without loss of quality, but they say they can't use it for some reason - their exact wording is "what he needs is a vectorised, editable eps file in black"
PDF is vector, editable file. It is much preferable to PS or EPS. A printer that cannot take PDF is not really up to date these days.
The EPS I exported won't open again in Inkscape :-} but does open in Photoshop - but upon zooming, it appears to have turned into a bitmap rather than a vector image.
Sure enough, Photoshop is a raster editor, so it rasterized it.
Can anyone advise of a way to do what they're asking for ? (i'm an absolute newbie with gfx apps unfortunately)
If your file is simple (no transparency or blur), either EPS or PDF produced by Inkscape should be fine. You can use Ghostscript to view the EPS (or PDF) to see it is vector.
Colin Wilson <phoenixbbs@...2327...> writes:
The EPS I exported won't open again in Inkscape :-} but does open in Photoshop - but upon zooming, it appears to have turned into a bitmap rather than a vector image.
If you "Save As" your picture as EPS, the result is OK (I checked it) and should be useable by the printer.
It is quite normal that Inkscape cannot open it, it requires some additional tools that you may not have installed. To inspect and EPS you need a Postscript viewer (e.g. Ghostscript) or quality text processor (e.g. OpenOffice.org).
Just send the exported EPS to the printer, and keep in contact with them while they process it.
Nice drawing, BTW.
-- Johan
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