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
Unfortunately it's not just the sign business, today in all output venues Illustrator sucks. We just had a 40 x 85 all vector panel, 1 line of vertical text and 6 lines of horizontal text all converted to curves. All set on a maroon CMYK built background, it would not output to any of our 3 RIPs without streaks.
After close examination both in AI and CorelDRAW I found a layer in CD that could be removed in CD but not in AI. If you removed the layer in AI the content disappeared, in CD the layer was there but blank. What should have been an extremely SIMPLE FILE was crap.
Long story short, due to costs we are now taking all Adobe content and rasterizing in a color managed manner all content except that which we need for cut paths.
Too bad Adobe used to be decent software.
David Milisock said:After close examination both in AI and CorelDRAW I found a layer in CD that could be removed in CD but not in AI.
I'm sure about one thing here. What you're describing is pilot error.
David Milisock said:Long story short, due to costs we are now taking all Adobe content and rasterizing in a color managed manner all content except that which we need for cut paths.
Of course. Either you learn to use the software, or you do stuff like that. I see it all the time.
I believe you're correct, the issue being that with a couple hundred dollar job we don't have the money to fix the problems with the file, only the output. A 10 minute fix is not in the budget, we can dump it and the fix is 1 minute.