SO , i have upgraded to X5 from X3 , and now when i Export EPS files, they are MASSIVE, I work in a company that does signs, and car vinyls and other graphics /vector realated work, and It is important that i use EPS as file format for out " plotter" but a size of 800 mb and 2,2 GB now when it used to be 10 mb is insane.
What went wrong in X 5 ? this never happened before, and im very curious if anyone else if having this issue,
I also use POSTSCRIPT 2, as 3, makes the feil over 2 GBs
Please help me as im lost how this can be , i cant use PDF as the plotter only recognize EPS or JPG.
Thank you for your time.
Regards Glacius
I wonder if you had the the image header turned off in X3, but it has defaulted back to on for your X5 installation.
You probably don't need an image header for sending to a plotter -- and if you are plotting a banner, the image header could be very large. So try turning it off (in the General tab during export) or at least set it to a very low resolution like 10dpi and see if that significantly changes the size.
Hello Harry thank you for quick answer
Could you explain futher where this " general tab is? " would be helpfull
I cant see that anywhere.
regards glac
HI
yeah i dont use this at all, but still I get monster big file, its strange this really strange =( .
thanks for reply-
Glacius said:yeah i dont use this at all, but still I get monster big file
Can you post images of the options you do use?
Another thing you could try is to find a relatively small X5 EPS file (but still, one that's a lot bigger than from X3) and try importing it into a blank CDR file.
Look to see if there's anything there which ought to be a vector object, but has turned into a bitmap. Or anything that shouldn't be there at all.
If possible, find a similar EPS from X3, import that to a different CDR file and use File > Document Properties to compare the number of objects in both
Hello guys
THank you for you replies.
The problem I have is that the size of the "sign" we are suppose to Plott is 2 x 1 meters.
And currently there is only 3 objects in that sign . I posted here what kind of options I use but i recon its all default , stil the file is MASSIVE, around 800 mb ,
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2175/epserror2.jpg
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/6764/epserror1.jpg
As you can see here , i hope there is nothing set wrong .
I tried what you asked me to, but still file is getting well over 800 mb .
regards
Glac
Glacius said:only 3 objects in that sign
What kind of objects? If they are vectors, as the background behind your dialogue panel suggests they probably ought to be, then your EPS file size shouldn't be more than a megabyte. The size of the banner would be irrelevant -- a large banner contains exactly the same vector objects as a business card showing the same objects.
But file sizes of 400 and 800 Mb suggests that one or more of your objects is a bit image. If that's the case and there isn't something with considerably more detail hidden behind your dialogue panel, an outline trace should convert it back to a vector object.
If you do need a bit image, or if you are using effects such as transparency that may need to be resolved to a bitmap, then I'd guess that in your X3 export you had jpg compression enabled but at a high quality setting, so enabling it in X5 may give you back the file size you had previously.
HI Mate
Yeah its all vector, but there is no bitmaps in the objects ive checked, I got an email from COREL, telling me to instal HOTFIX 4, i will try this and see how it goes.
* EDIT* ,I tried it with the HOT FIX 4 Update and same issue
But eureka i found the problem I think, as soon as i removed the " powerclip" wich turned it into LENS, by removing the lens , wich I had on one single object, the EPS file is now 63 KB! , this is insane, so there has to be an issue in that powerclip.
glac
Glacius said:i removed the " powerclip" wich turned it into LENS, by removing the lens , wich I had on one single object, the EPS file is now 63 KB! , this is insane, so there has to be an issue in that powerclip.
What RIP are you using?
The other possibilities are:
By making it post script 3 the files reaches about 2,3 GB; so it makes it only worse.
THe only fix i could see was to remove the " lens " and just make that background effect object just a slightly brighter colour then the background, also making it a bitmap would also make the file huge.
Glacius said:THe only fix i could see was to remove the " lens " and just make that background effect object just a slightly brighter
What RIP were you using? Are you sure PDF (or PostScript 3) isn't accepted?