Timeline for Vectors or 300 dpi TIFFs for printing?
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| Apr 9, 2013 at 12:55 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | @leugim I'd say keep them - you're probably not the only person to have had that confusion, it might help someone else. Everyone learns by making mistakes. But if you really want to delete a comment you can with the X by the side of the comment. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 3:15 | comment | added | leugim | is it better to delete these comments then? Besides proving my ignorance it is not constructive considering the OPs question. shame on me | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 3:12 | comment | added | leugim | Yes, you are right. I got it mixed up with a requirement from a printer I work with often. They need the gradients rasterized (rastered?) at specific dpi(depending on technology used, screenprinting direct to plates or traditional offset) and everything else flattened. THEN I save that as pdf and send it over. I forgot that I specifically rasterize them. As you said it has nothing to do with pdf or illustrator. Sorry about that! | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 3:03 | comment | added | Scott | Sorry, you're incorrect. Gradients in Illustrator are not raster and are not exported as raster for PDFs. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 1:45 | comment | added | leugim | What are the gradient fills in illustrator? Are they from photoshop? like a version of psd smartobjects in illustrator? What I was saying is that vector files with gradient fills and effects are a mix between raster and vector (at least when saving as pdf). And that is a possible reason why there are dpi requirements on vector art. So you CAN export a pdf file from illustrator but you need to heed the resolution at which these effects are to be rasterized... I hope I'm getting this right. Please feel free to comment. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 1:33 | comment | added | Scott | Gradient fills are raster from Photoshop, not Illustrator. Photoshop never creates true vector files. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 1:30 | comment | added | leugim | There are instances where vector images end up with parts as rasterimages. Some "effects" and many gradientfills are transformed into raster images when creating pdf. Many of them clipped or masked with vector shapes. You can ask the vendor for the recommended settings but if the TIFF workaround is not too much of an hassle for you, it is worth knowing for sure there won't be any problems... Some vendors are more experienced than others with different formats and settings. Independant of years of experience in the field | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 0:27 | history | edited | Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2013 at 0:02 | history | answered | Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |