Questions tagged [export]
Questions about the process of saving a file in a different format, often so that it can be used in another program. Example: exporting a drawing in Illustrator as PNG.
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How to create an animated WebP using WebPShop?
In the README for WebPShop (a Photoshop plugin for saving WebP files) there is mention of a method for creating animated WebP files, but the method for producing such files is not described in detail. ...
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Darkened and less saturated photos when exporting in pdf for print
As I am preparing my photos to be printed for the first time I wanted to ask for your advice. Let me explain what I did and what I am not sure of.
at first I changed profiles from RGB to CMYK FOGRA39 ...
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How to set up and export illustrator file for a huge digital billboard?
photos are much bigger than the pixels artboard and need the finale saved jpeg to be 1MB. When setting up illustrator file for a huge digital billboard what the best way to save and export the file?
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Can I export as a legacy eps
Can I export a file from Affinity Designer as a legacy eps (Illustrator 8) so I can use with Roland CutStudio?
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GIMP - export to PNG changes the color completely
I have problem very similar to GIMP - export to PNG changes the color completely (from RGB to GRAY).
i.e. colors in exported images are changed to gray. What I am doing wrong?
here https://www.dropbox....
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Inkscape: Export individual objects as separate PNGs but retains the whole Page's size on each Image
Say for example I have an svg image of a face. The eyes, nose, mouth, ears and empty face are different objects. I want to export each objects as their individual PNG image but, each image should ...
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Is there a drawing app that lets me export single-line vectors to Illustrator? Looking for unexpanded strokes
I'm looking for an app for tablet that will let me draw lines with a stylus that I can later continue to edit in illustrator. All apps that I have seen until now will convert every stroke into an area ...
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Export older c4d files into fbx/obj
newbie to Cinema 4D here and never worked with it before! I have a couple of .c4d files in the zip file linked below that were created in an older version (R11.5 or older) of Cinema 4D, and hence I ...
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Adobe Illustrator - Export list of positions and dimensions of vector objects with absolute positions
In previous CorelDraw user life, I had part of a 'workflow' where I needed to gather information on the height, width, and position of objects from a scaled diagram (think e.g., a technical drawing ...
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inDesign: Placed PDF hyperlinks won't work in exported Interactive PDF, Any fixes?
I have a document that made out of collage of a bunch of PDFs! These documents are contained with lits of Hyperlinked text and images, but when placed, and re-exported to Interactive PDF, they are not ...
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Bulk exporting psd files as png. Can't record a photoshop action
I have a folder of roughly 119 PSDs that need to be exported to PNG format. They need to preserve transparency properly for their intended purpose in print, and no other file format is acceptable. I ...
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Exported PDF from InDesign 1 of 200 pages exported without contents
I have been working on a 200 page PDF for about 3 years now. Every couple weeks or so the client has an update and a new version is created for the website's download page. There are technically three ...
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Inkscape: subtract and export SVG for printed circuit board
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I've designed a circuit board using Kicad and would like to put a texture onto all unused copper areas, simply for aesthetics.
So, instead of flooding the unused areas with a solid "...
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Why is InDesign exporting my pdf with compression artefacts only visible on the background?
I'm in the process of literally giving my old CV a new coat of paint. My old, working export settings for getting a clean pdf have been lost with the last re-installing of Windows.
It should not be as ...
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Pixelated PNG exports from InDesign
I am making display ads in InDesign.
The sizes are rather small (300x600, 300x250, 336x280, 720x900.
The images I placed and the text get pixelated on the PNG export.
When I export at 600 DPI and then ...
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Setting export location when using quick actions
I’m setting up some quick actions to improve my workflow, one is that I export a jpg of the artboard to a certain folder for each job I do.
ie. every job I do has a 3 folder directory, and my working ...
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Inkscape: Segments disappear from pdf export
I made this very simple SVG in Inkscape 1.2.2:
https://svgshare.com/s/rbx
The pdf export (default export settings) looks like this:
All of the horizontal segments are missing (everything else is ...
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Save PowerPoint (fullscreen) presentation view as document or vector image?
I have not found a way to save the presentation view at a time X during a presentation as a document of some kind, ideally as a vector graphic (i.e. as PPTX, PDF, SVG or similar).
Is this true, or is ...
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How do you find Slices in Sketch - is finding Exportables the only way?
The Problem
I want a way to find Slices in a complex Sketch document.
Why this is a problem
I have used icon templates from Apple and Apply Pixels which are pre-configured to export different icon ...
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Illustrator - Offset Path Outlines thicker after export
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator. How do I fix the exported svg file from looking different than the original adobe AI preview window? Specifically lines in the SVG being thicker than AI
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Can Illustrator files exported through the "export for screens" method also be printed? Is that the best practice?
I'm really more of a Photoshop person, so I have gaps in my self-taught Illustrator knowledge, so thanks for the patience.
When I do logos for clients, I use Export for Screens as recommended by most ...
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In Illustrator's Export for Screens, how do I specify exact height in px – or see what the actual pixel dimensions are?
I'm using Adobe Illustrator 27.2 on Windows. This is the current version as of February 2023 on Creative Cloud.
I have an Illustrator document of a company logo originally intended for print use: the ...
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Illustrator SVG export tossing around path locations / rotations
I'm trying to export a pretty simple icon I made in illustrator to svg for use on a webpage, but when I export it, two of the thick curved lines in my graphic are tossed off to the side and rotated ...
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How can I make GIMP export colours as I see them in my workspace?
I'm making a texture of a simple glowing orb on a transparent background. When I have everything looking good in the initial window exporting it to .png format leads to a loss of colour and detail, ...
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How should I save an Archicad project with furniture?
I work in ARCHICAD, and the projects I'm working on can be transferred to another computer. Despite the fact that I seem to be saving everything correctly, when I open the project on another computer, ...
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Any freeware programs for CMYK .tiff?
So, I'm a grad student trying to submit a scientific paper for publication. One requirement is that all graphs need to be .tiff with CMYK colors. Graphs were made in R and Inkscape, and that's pretty ...
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How to flatten TIFF files when exporting from Adobe Illustrator
I am trying to prepare some vector drawings for publication, of which the outlet in question require the images to be submitted as TIFFs. I have been doing the images in Adobe Illustrator, but I've ...
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Why the font are pixelated after exporting from photoshop?
So I created one banner in photoshop. I exported it as photoshop PDF last year. when I open that in acrobat it is perfect. but recently I have had to export it again but when I open it in acrobat the ...
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Scribus – can I export facing pages combined?
I have created a document with facing pages. It’s for a foldable flyer with four flyer-pages in total, each in A5 format. The printer shop does the folding for me, but expects the input document to ...
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Stroke-width not associated with actual set-value (Inkscape)
When setting the stroke-width of a line, the stroke width appears to change in Inkscape (okay.. good). However I believe the amount that it changes is not actually equal to the value set. For example, ...
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why is quick export canceled by close document?
This is a working script which do the same job as it would if you hit tab File>Export>Quick Export As (PNG/JPG).
There are 4 artboards and 7 layers in document. I need export 4 arboards.
Result: all 4 ...
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How to convert a path blurred object into a vector?
I have created a logo in Ps that uses the path blur effect. I would like to convert it into a vector in Ai as I would like to have a higher resolution print on a sublimated shirt. But once I image ...
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Is there a better method for InDesign -> Word?
I use InDesign for layout of pieces which range from 2 to 72+ pages.
On occasion I'll get a client request to send a PDF and Word file for the latest iteration of a piece so that someone somewhere can ...
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Figma pixels differs from Photoshop pixels?
I have designed a landing page for a website for one of my client. I designed it in Figma(Online UI design tool) and have exported the whole artboard with 1x resolution with the size (W:1400px, H:...
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Why does my Inkscape export PDF look different from original SVG file?
Why is stroke in my exported PDF black while it's gray in Inkscape?
This is how it looks in Inkscape:
However, the exported PDF stroke become black inside:
How can I fix this?
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In Illustrator how do you export just clipping mask interior?
I have an illustration containing text and brush strokes and would like to export it as 3 files each containing what is inside one of the three green shapes. I've tried creating a clipping mask from ...
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How do I easily export parts of an artwork in Adobe Illustrator?
I have an artboard in illustrator that contains the cover for a book. It has the front cover, back cover, and spine, all in a single artboard, with bleed, so that I can print to PDF and send that PDF ...
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Exporting illustrator file and uploading to instagram blurry
I am having a dilemma with quality exporting from illustrator to instagram. I don't know whether this is something I'm doing in illustrator or instagram. I create an artboard the same as an instagram ...
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InDesign zero inner bleed not possible
I am new to making a InDesign document print ready (magazine) and I am facing a problem that I could not find the answer to from other threads.
What I have:
InDesign double page spread
Pictures ...
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How to center my artwork when export?
When I want to export my artwork, this is positioned in the left margin. How to do to be centred? I'll add a screenshot to explain that better. Thank you!
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Issue with export from Illustrator [duplicate]
I wanted to export my work in PDF from illustrator, but I have a problem my lines of the flower are very visible I don't know how to do it for make it smooth. I don't know my be it's normal. you can ...
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Photoshop: export each guide as individual image
Suppose I have this dummy project where I set guides on my workspace
How would I now export this in three different images?
I would like to have one image for each guide block such that
The first ...
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Export from InDesign - Preserve effects (do not flatten transparency)
Alex here with a question, hoping the creative minds here can help with. Thank you in advance!
I design a few icons in Adobe InDesign in the interest of time for a publication, but now I was asked to ...
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How do I restrict all of a PDF's editability EXCEPT for extracting and moving around pages?
I am starting to sell digital PDFs, and I want my customers to be able to move pages around between PDF files they have and customize them, but I don't want anyone trying to edit individual elements ...
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Complex .tiff s (many blended layers) not showing properly outside of Photoshop. Everywhere else there is some level of merging/flattening
I have been doing work in Photoshop, but the saved .tiffs look vastly different outside of Photoshop. I save as .Tiff because often the files are larger than 2GB so no PSD. But with later or image ...
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Printed PDF has black box instead of shadow
We received a PDF from our client to forward it to the printing house (I hope that is the correct english term, I'm talking about offset print) and later we combine the printed result with our product....
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Export Artboards as Multiple, Multi-Page PDFs in Illustrator
I know that it is possible to export individual artboards all as separate PDFs in Illustrator, but I need to group some of the artboards together and I can't find a good solution.
At the moment, I'm ...
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What does this loading bar mean in GIF export in Photoshop?
It's been loading for 5 minutes at the same mark, but it's not even clear to me what it's loading, I haven't exported anything yet.
And I get this error if I try to click on Save As.
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Figma PDF export order
When I use the Export frames to PDF, I cannot find the way to order the frames as wanted. They seem to be exported in the order they were created. Any idea on how to change that?
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Why are my export files different from my Indesign artboards? [duplicate]
I'm trying to figure out why on my exported files, some pages have crossed over onto each other. They are outside the bleed line so I expect them to be trimmed however, some tutorials, etc do not have ...
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