The main reason I joined this forum: my company keeps hiring designers who will only use Illustrator. They save their files to both Illustrator and PDF (every time). I am charged with putting them into CDR files for manufacturing routing and vinyl as well as making sure the shop floor can understand the mumbo jumbo they use to talk to architects and clients. (Do I sound like I have an issue...) I am having tantrums trying to get these to work. Bitmaps and copy going one way or another or worse, leaving all together. I have started opening in AI and resaving without compression and flattening the artwork. Any other hints out there from other sign designers? I am on X7 and Illustrator CC, I also have Adobe Pro XI
Right there with ya Venetia! I've been with this company for ten 10yrs and convinced them to use CD exclusively. Now whenever we need to hire new designers all we get are Illustrator applicants. Only those who are willing to learn "the better way" are considered.
We print, apply, and cut all our own stuff. pvc, magnets, decals, banners, vehicle wraps, plexi, panfaces, alum, sandblast etc. So having one program that can do the majority is just common sense.
Ugh...paths. Can we speak in curves? Paths are for bending text... I know, that's how conditioned I am. It is a Corel forum. Having never been in a position to do much print work (outside of printed vinyl), the outsourcing we had always asked for AI files. I guess because Apple and "Adobe were first everyone knew them first and so it goes. I was humbly accepting what the Mac geeks have always told me and the fact that it has never gone away. I keep trying to get better at AI but it still isn't changing my mind. I will say that for my husbands business cards, flyers, newspaper ads (back in the day), Corel always worked fine. The plus side being all the import and export options we have had. AI still wont import CDR? What is up with that
Myron said: Right there with ya Venetia! I've been with this company for ten 10yrs and convinced them to use CD exclusively. Now whenever we need to hire new designers all we get are Illustrator applicants. Only those who are willing to learn "the better way" are considered. We print, apply, and cut all our own stuff. pvc, magnets, decals, banners, vehicle wraps, plexi, panfaces, alum, sandblast etc. So having one program that can do the majority is just common sense.
Right there with you
Tyson said:why do I need a bezier tool and a pen tool? they do the same thing
You probably do not. But maybe Joe Soap needs the bezier tool and Bill Sproggs needs the pen ... ?
A computer doesn't strictly need a mouse and a keyboard, but most of them do have both.