Hello,
First time poster, user since ver. 8.
Having a major issues when I export to TIFF. Basically any time I try to export a 4'x8' it blows the file up to massive size and that's even if it's usable. For years I have battled issues with exporting corel files for large format printers. If I ever have a drop shade effect and attempt to export as an EPS, the drop shadow is printed as a dark rectangle without the desired feathering, the same would happen if I attempt to publish it as a PDF. The one thing I could trust was TIFF. Now a TIFF export is out of the question and Corel has become unusable in our sign shop. In the past when I managed a sign shop for an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler we would print to onyx right from Corel so these issues weren't as big of a problem....except for occasions when I would print a long cooler wrap with drop shades then exporting to TIFF would solve any issues.
Is Corel aware of this issue? This has happened on multiple machines all running Win 7 64-bit. I can attest this IS a bug.
My bad, no idea how i navigated here to x3.
Hey Ken,
Export to TIFF @ 150 dpi and use LZW compression, most RIPs can handle LZW and large format printing only needs 150DPI Resolution
See how that goes!
Good luck
Myron said:It won't let you stay at 4ft x 8ft AND 150 dpi
It's always been like that you have to set your DPI and then re-enter the size... confusing yes, but once you set the DPI it will remember it till you change it for another DPI... all clear LOL
I have seen (and reported) the problem that tracym described above.
Although the screen is confusing, tracym's workround (setting the units to pixels in the export screen before changing any of the parameters) seems to work. With a document of original size 8 x 4 feet I get a file size of 500Mb at 300dpi LZW compressed and it reduces to 190Mb at 150dpi.
Think I need to check this for myself. I've been relying on my co-workers word. She's the guinea pig that got stuck using X7 and I'm still on X4.
Myron