Hi Guys,
I know this have been asked a lot of times on this forum but I searched through some of the old questions and can't find a specific answer... I think there might not have a good one.
I am currently working on something for a Client which has all of his files in Illustrator format (Which is "Business as usual" in my 7 years as a Corel user). But in this era of digital printing and gradient/transparence/opacity masks in Illustrator I have a big problem in converting all these transparency in the drawings to be able to have a template in Corel for this.
That would not be that much of a problem to me since I am an avid Illustrator user and could just do some designs in there. But in this case we are not talking about a 1of... There are 200+ sites to do and we are a couple designers working on this and some of them does not have Illustrator and/or the skills to use it properly (and in sign business, honestly Illustrator sucks).
I was just wondering if any of you have a miracle solution. I got plenty of files to transfer and would really like not to create JPEGs with all the files and have to send the Illustrator ready files to the printer guy...
Thanks in advance!
Squantcher
We had the same problem with an environmental company and with the YMCA logo. We found that just opening the AI file into CorelDRAW it converted that stupid AI fake gradient to a standard fountain fill. I believe they were AI CS 5 files opened onto CorelDRAW X6 at the time.
AI users often make their gradients with transparency form some reason.
The way you explain it would make sense however we have never seen it (gradients created with transparency) used in a manner that a normal gradient or fountain fill would not have worked. Unfortunately it appears that it's just the way AI users are taught.
We can do the same thing in CorelDRAW but I never see it done.
Also unfortunately many AI files that omen in now have to be handled Ina manner that makes it cost effective to handle them.