I have a customer that has created vector artwork in Affinity Designer (there are 4 different logos in total, which I am needing to open in Corel and lay them out all on the on page in order to screen print them) and exported it as an .EPS, however when I try to open it, I am unable to ungroup the objects in order to assemble as needed. When I open them the logos are skewed and act more like jpg images, however I know they are not as I know the person that is creating them and he knows what I need.
Please see attached one of the .EPS as an example.
I am pulling my hair out and would massively appreciate any help anyone can give me. I have a bit of a deadline and I'm going bald...
Thank you in advance, Craig
AD + eps export sucks unless there are zero effects. They will always be raster.
If you are going to work with people using AD, you either need a copy of AD and have them send the AD file so you can undo the effects they have, export or copy/paste the vector and recreate the effects, or, instruct them to send both a stripped-down version of the eps sans effects + a pdf so you can recreate the visual appearance of those effects.
Which is why Affinity products should be avoided for print. Web work is fine, digital print may be ok bu press print is a non starter.
That's not what I'm saying.
I've used AD for some paying print projects. They output just fine. But they do not play well with others in a collaborative work-flow.
But then again, AI --> CD doesn't necessarily play well together. Nor does CD --> AI. Nor does XXX --> YYY either.
I'm a firm believer that if another job shop needs to open my files, I need to at least run my files through the application they are using in order to make things compatible.
I rarely need such collaborative work-flows. But when I do, I need to make them foolproof.
If you can't create a file for output, export it as required, usually as a print ready PDF or EPS so they can be placed into the output provider's digital front end then you need training and or a new application. There are plenty of situations where Affinity or other low end applications are useful.
It's just that printing press printing, supporting CMYK, Device N Color, Grayscale is not Affinitys cup of tea. If you take Affinity files you're just going to have to rebuild some things sometimes, either bill them for it, don't take the files orvret the cost. That's the long and short of supporting substandard applications.