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What is the best file type to save to.
I have a huge flexface skin that needs to be printed. It is 36 meters long by 900mm. I have designed the skin in CorelDraw 11. Now my problem is this…. The company that prints it can’t read my Corel files and I have to convert them so they can read it. I assume they are Mac based and I am PC.
I usually reduce my artwork to 25% size then convert to Bitmap, then to EPS. This is what I do to print onto my Versacamm. I have even reduced the artwork to 15% but get the same result.
What is happening is this, when I convert the artwork to a bitmap it changes my background fill, it messes up some of the colours and instead of coming out as a square pattern it makes the colours merge into stripes. This is doing my head in trying to convert without changing the background.
Anyone got any ideas whats going wrong.. -
6 Replies
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hi, not up on corel draw myself but i guess its much the same, have you tried just saving as an eps instead of bit mapping them eps, what other software do you have??
cheers
jus
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Mike most graphics packages allow you to export as an EPS or a PDF file, either of these should be OK for the company that are going to print, have you asked them what format they want it in and what platform they are running?
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For a raster image, try exporting the file as a TIFF. It’s the universal image file format for uncompressed graphics (PC, Mac, UNIX). No compression means no quality loss after the conversion.
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If I export directly to EPS I get a huge file that hangs up the computer, but if I convert to bitmap first I don’t get the hanging up problem.
The company can read EPS files but this is where my problem lies. -
Would converting to PDF help?
Dawn
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Sorry I must really read all the replies carefully
before answeringPeter 😳
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