Exporting vehicle library from Signlab to illustrator

[Phill Fenton]

Check there isn’t another set of files you can use. Most libraries contain files at actual size as well as at 20% to allow illustrator users to open them. (i.e .ai files instead of .eps)

[Ewan Chrystal]

What library are you using. Impact give you AI files that open fine at 20%

[Daniel Evans]

Thanks for replying.

I’ve already designed the vehicle to full scale in signlab, I can open up a scaled down version in illustrator and reduce the graphics manually to fit it but surely there must be a way of reducing a signlab file by 2000% so I can save it and import it to illustrator? Well I hoped there was lol.

[Ewan Chrystal]

Saw this on another site, might be worth trying.

This is very simple to do:

Open the Transform palette
Lock the width and height
In the W: input add "/10" (after the current value in the box in mm/inches/etc).
This will divide the value by 10 and will therefore downscale everything to 10% of its original size.

[Daniel Evans]

Thanks Ewan

I’ll give that a go and let you know how I get on.

Thanks

[Daniel Evans]

Just re-reading this, do you mean in illustrator? I need to do it in signlab as illustrator won’t even open the file as it falls off the document.

Thanks again.

[Martin Pearson]

I’ve never used signlab but there must be a resize tool, even my old copy of Inspire had an option to resize either by percentage or by typing in a value, have you checked all the drop down options looking for either a scale or resize option

[Ewan Chrystal]

Hi Daniel, I meant have a look in Signlab to see if you can do it this way

[Frank Droog]

Select everything.
Click on Layout/Size Move/Size.
Make sure the lock is locked for proportional scaling
Enter your percent scale down or use the up down arrow keys.