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Converting an eps into Corel suitable file help please.
Hi
I’ve put this request in the Illustrator forum since I believe it requires somebody familiar with illustrator to give me advice.
We bought a vector image file in EPS format off Istock in order to use it in a van wrap design.
We use Corel as our design weapon of choice.
The EPS won’t import into corel (X5 or X4) at all.
We have illustrator (CS3) on one of our PCs and the file opens in there perfectly trouble is we never use illustrator and the pc is not connected or set up for the printer.
Seems the file has been drawn in illustrator but converted to EPS badly.
I have tried converting in CS3 to pdf and ai and another EPS but no luck, the file imports into Corel but is a mish mash of all sorts.
Looking at the file in CS3 it is composed of many parts, layers – locked and unlocked, mesh fills, lenses and probably lots of other stuff.
So can anybody give me advice on what to do in illustrator to get a reasonably working file in corel, I was thinking along lines of putting everything on one layer, converting the mesh fills and lenses to a bitmap anfd leaving the vectors on top.
As said never used illustrator so it’s a bit like getting from A to B in a submarine or an aircraft, i.e. both would likely get you there but the controls are completely different.Was thinking of enlarging the image in illustrator and converting to bitmap but illustrator wont enlarge far enough and even at a reasonable small enlargement (2m x 1m) it says the file is too big to convert to a 300dpi bitmap.
Thanks for reading
John
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6 Replies
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Import your file into illustrator then save your file as in a lower version of eps and with a different file name so not to overwrite the original.
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Try printing to something like Cutepdf to make your pdf, basically that may simplfy the file enough to import. You also can try downloading a trial version of Pstill to see if that flattens it enough without spoiling the file.
Can you email me regarding this.
Alan D -
If you have Acrobat pro try importing the eps file than save the file again as eps or pdf… this sometimes works for me.
Also in Corel try the opening command instead of importing the file.
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Import is normally better that open BUT do try drag and drop that can work in a different way. Trying Acrobat if you have it is a good suggestion
Alan D -
I agree Alan.. importing is always better than opening, but i try all options until i get a result.
I have also had eps files that seem to only open in photoshop
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If you are anything like me you get to the point where you’ll try anything to import difficult files. EPS/postscript is a language with so many different dialects it seems and that coupled with Adobe moving the goal post periodically means that the likes of corel/Cadlink and ll the others are for ever playing catchup.
The main problem usually comes back to transparencies/lenses or AI compression (uncompressed AI file will import more reliably) and stuff like that, each programme does these in a different way – none are necessarily wrong just different.
I know that Corel put alot of effort into import filters especially the Adobe ones but its always catchup.
Alan D
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