RE: Adobe Illustrator

I was hoping this would end up in a discussion of where I can get a viewer
for an .ai file.  We occasionally get them in but I haven't found a good
viewer yet.  I have no idea how to create them...

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cagle [mailto:bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:44 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Adobe Illustrator


This is all extremely unfamiliar ground for me, I appreciate any advice
I can get.

I am downloading the demo of Illustrator right now - don't know if that
will help me any, but at least I can see what the vendor is seeing.  

I have already tried exporting or "saving as" .AI from Quark Express and
it does not have that functionality.

I am also going to double-check my DPI settings on the .EPS files.

Thanks,
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:37 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Adobe Illustrator

Sounds like John is describing raster (DPI) vs vector (paths) formats.
Is 
EPS a raster of vector format? Perhaps your vendor can work with a 
different vector format. I see that Paint Shop Pro can convert to 
encapsulated PostScript with extensions of .ps, .ai, or .eps - is any of

that helpful?

Vern

At 01:03 PM 12/16/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>
>I've passed your question on to our graphic designer to see if he has a
>solution, but I suspect that you might be up a creek sans paddle (at
least
>in terms of finding a simple answer).
>
>Page layout programs (like PageMaker or Quark) produce everything using
dots
>per inch (dpi) to determine quality. 266 -300 dpi is roughly print
quality.
>72 dpi is web quality (and that's also why graphic designers can't take
>images from the web and use them for print purposes).
>
>On the flip side, Adobe Illustrator AI files are composed of paths and
>shades. This allows graphic designers to create a graphic that can be
pasted
>on the side of a blimp or on the back of a matchbox without losing any
>quality.
>
>The upshot is that the two programs see and produce graphics in
completely
>different ways. Your vendor probably needs an AI file because they want
to
>be able to scale it up or down without losing quality. Even worse, AI
is a
>proprietary file type used only by Illustrator.
>
>The only thing I can suggest is that when you export from Quark to EPS,
make
>sure that the dpi setting is 300 or over. That should improve the
quality,
>but won't make it fully scaleable.
>
>I'll let you know if our graphic designer has anything else to
contribute.
>
>All the best,
>John
>----
>Quadrant Software
>http://www.quadrantsoftware.com/
>800-258-3399
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
>Behalf Of Bob Cagle
>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:03 PM
>To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
>Subject: [PCTECH] Adobe Illustrator
>
>This may be a little off-topic, but our graphic designer has left the
>company and management just assumes I know how to do his job, cuz it's
still
>computers...
>
>I have a layout in Quark Express that I need to send to a vendor.  They
>require it in Adobe Illustrator format.  We do not own Illustrator, so
I
>exported the file from Quark Express to an .EPS format.  The vendor is
able
>to read the file, but the quality is extremely poor, and they are
asking
>specifically for the .AI format.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to convert from a Quark Express file to an Adobe
>Illustrator file, when you don't have Illustrator???  Are there any
free, or
>relatively cheap, utilities available on the web?  I have done some
google
>searches and keep coming up empty.
>
>Bob
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