Is there any way for CorelDraw X6 to export very large TIFF files? e.g. greater than 30,000 pixels in each dimension? I am currently running X5 on XP 32-bit and it cannot seem to handle it, even though Photo-Paint appears to have the ability.I finally manage to get our IT guys to give me a Win7 64-bit test machine for me to trial X6 64-bit, but seems to only do marginally better than my X5 installation. The test machine already has 7GB RAM installed plus a very, very large drive.I also had to run the same test on Adobe Illustrator and it was able to deal with this very quickly and smoothly, no troubles at all.You may find it hard to believe, but I actually like using CorelDraw :-), which is so far the standard package for our company, but if I cannot get X6 doing what we want, I'm afraid it's the end of the line.
Well I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to disclose which printer it is, but it is not a "one-off" special, it is a production quality machine and there are many out in the field from more than one manufacturer.
There is no print mode on this particular printer which is below 300 DPI, the RIP software for this printer will not let you go below that. There are ways to work around it, but I can assure you, if we were to try something lower, the results would look like garbage. Maybe this is hard for you to believe, but I again point to what Adobe did with Illustrator & PhotoShop. They saw that it was worth the effort to add this ability to handle extra large TIFF's to their software, so obviously somebody is asking for it. They don't put in stuff just for fun.
Maybe it depends on who is looking at the images. When I first started in this business, everything looked great. But after some time, you start to see all sorts of image artifacts everywhere and differences between print modes with differing resolutions & print schemes becoming blindingly obvious...
Regardless, I'm still stuck with the original problem. I need to generate very large TIFF files, CorelDraw seems to choke up on that.
Aah, thanks, but it didn't work. I think I run into the same issue as with the export.
At full width, if I select half height worth of objects, it will go just fine. If I select full-height (i.e. all of the objects), it tries and export and dumps out a smallish 1.8MB file which nothing can read, the TIFF is corrupted. It's almost like CorelDraw actually has the ability to do this, but at some point it runs out of memory and gives up. (I am trialing this with X6 64-bit on a Win7 64-bit machine with at least 8GB of RAM)
Anyway., I still wonder WHY do you need this resolution. Let me explain, for offset printing is calculated 300 dpi max for a 150 lip printing, some CTP can produce 175 or 200 lpi, so the max vailable for offset is 400 dpi. Of course, most RIP allows to use 600, 800 or 1200 dpi image and more, but the final result is 300/350 dpi, only few machines can display 400 dpi, and that produce a very small dots, that require to magnify a lot to see it. Do you believe that you need MORE than the max of the offset printing industry? btw, the main poit is that you can use 600 dpi images for offset, but the final result never output at 600 dpi
In the other side, some printers, include several inkjet, can print at high resolution, 720x720, 1440x720, 1440x2880, and more. This is the print resolution, but that does mean that you can print a TIF with 1440 dpi at real sise and resolution, no matter if it's half os an A4 or more. It's the same of the offset, you csn send an image of 600 dpi, but that doesn't meqan that the final output will be an image of 600 dpi. If you send the same image at 400 dpi, you can't see any difference
Look, unfortunately, employer restrictions don't allow me to talk too much about what I do. If I could, I'd explain it and I'm sure it would all be very clear.In my industry, yes, we do need it and yes, the printing resolution is better than offset press. I'm aware of the desktop printers which tout really high resolutions and what it really means on the printed output. This is not the same case here.I'm aware of the dot size at 600 DPI and I actually have the tools to measure that sort of thing. While each individual dot is not visible at standard viewing distance, the resulting image artifacts that appear if you do not place the dots accurately if you lay down more than 1 layer of ink, are immediately obvious to the human eye. This is a well known problem in our industry and the various printer manufacturers have all sorts of clever schemes to try and deal with this.This is a real example of needing such resolution: Some of our customers in certain countries require the ability to legibly print 2pt font on posters. That language is not English and some characters have a lot of fine detail on them. You can work out how much space I have on a 2 pt font. Not only does the character/words have to be legible, they actually have to look nice (i.e. not like 8-bit pixel graphics!). It's not our business to ask why our customers want it, they say they do and we do our best to accomodate them.And for the last time people, maybe your industry doesn't need it, but mine does. I can tell you, we have the same print for reference printed at 300 DPI and 450 DPI and the results are obvious to anyone but the blind. It matters here. And yes, I can measure to verify the printed resolution. I have access to tools to measure the size and even the thickness of individual dots if I have to.
Again, I would like to point out, while you think it's odd and unnecessary, ask yourself why Adobe put the effort into adding this feature to their products and making sure it works? Maybe you don't need it, obviously some people do.