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can anyone help with exporting a jpeg in x3 please?
when putting an interactive drop shadow on text, in large text, eg banners, i get faint random lines when I export the image to jpeg, can not save as an eps as it dose not print right and is too big
any help
Please
Ian -
14 Replies
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Try saving as a bitmap or tiff?
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tried that bill, its just coping the original image
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If the original text is in jpeg format then you will always get compression artifacts.
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no normal text with shadow, if you look at it in enhanced mode you can see the lines
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Sorry mate, let’s backtrack – is your original text an image file or a vector?
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from the top
type in text, about 150mm height
then apply interactive drop shadow
in enhanced mode have a close look and you see random lines in the drop shadow
when you export to a jpeg these lines print out
you can not export as an eps file as the shadow is not right, it needs to be a tiff or jpeg
ian
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I can’t get it to do it. Does this happen every time?
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with the drop shadow in x3 i get odd small black lines at the edge of the shadow, ok in v10.
exporting as cmyk often helps ?
chris
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Yes Ian, I see what you mean. I just tried it and I get odd lines in the drop shadow too, which seem to vary with the drop shadow angle. I’ve never really noticed this before as I usually use photoshop for that sort of effect. Must be a bug in X3?
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Well, I just can’t get it to do it. Just out of interest, what service pack are you up to? I’m still on SP1 as I’ve heard of problems with SP2. Might be relevent.
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Might have something to do with it Andy, I’m on SP2.
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quote Chris Wool:with the drop shadow in x3 i get odd small black lines at the edge of the shadow, ok in v10.exporting as cmyk often helps ?
chris
Me too, random lines in the shadow, no difference in CMYK tho. I’ll go back to V12 if I have to do this sort of thing. X3 bug probably.
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shot in the dark here but it’s nothing to do with the size of the text is it?….have you tried applying the drop shadow to smaller text & then scaling up once it’s rendered.
I always separate the drop shadow from the text once I am happy with the result because I always used to get problems when I reopened the file if the drop shadow was still active
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I’ve just been having a play with this….it’s doing the same thing with me in x3, no matter what size the text is.
One noticeable difference is that in v12 the bitmap is rendered as a 300 x 300 dpi CMYK bitmap but in x3 it is rendered as a rectangular lens….having said all that i couldn’t get rid of the hairlines no matter what I tried.
I don’t know if there is an option to make it render as a bitmap like in v12 but I couldn’t see one
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