Please help !

I'm a CorelDraw X7 user and I need your help. I recently created an illustration for someone, and the prinitng company wants an .AI or .EPS file. Which really sucks, because I don't have professional knowledge and I don't like Illustrator. Now, the main issue is that I cannot export the file proper. What I do is export as PDF from Corel (CMYK) and open the PDF in Illustrator. Then save it as .AI And here starts the problems. It seems that the export resulted in a file with clipping masks around raster images, and the files must be 100% vector. I used gradients in my work, and I know this is a great issue of compatibility with Illustrator. Whatever export extension and settings I use...it still doesn't display properly in Illustrator. Any help will be very much appreciated, thank you very much.

  • Hello khaan; I Wouldn't trust a printing firm that couldn't use a PDF file. there are Very few that can use a CDR file but if they don't know whats going on in printing with PDF's I'd look for another printer. ( where are you located? )

    George
    • Hi George, and thanks for the reply. I'm in Romania, but the printing firm is from US. The guy works with this company and I don't think he would consider changing them. So..here is my last resort..don't really know what to do.
    • khaan said:
      and the prinitng company wants an .AI or .EPS file

      Agree with George on this one, get a new one!

      khaan said:
      It seems that the export resulted in a file with clipping masks around raster images

       

      When you Publish to PDF do you uncheck this box???

      khaan said:
      because I don't have professional knowledge and I don't like Illustrator

      Same here

      Mike