myatia
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- Nov 21, 2002
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I did a couple of ads in Illustrator, and now the printer says he'd want them in Quark. What's the best way to do this? Is it even possible, or do I need to redo them in Quark?
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Your printer is a dolt.
Illustrator EPS files can be easily placed in Quark. Why is he asking for clunky, link-dependent Quark files when you have everything neatly packaged in an EPS?
Place your EPS file in a blank Quark document and give him the EPS and QXD files.
For extra fun, hide a text frame under your EPS file in Quark. Fill the text frame with disparaging comments about your printer.
Illustrator EPS files can be easily placed in Quark. Why is he asking for clunky, link-dependent Quark files when you have everything neatly packaged in an EPS?
Place your EPS file in a blank Quark document and give him the EPS and QXD files.
For extra fun, hide a text frame under your EPS file in Quark. Fill the text frame with disparaging comments about your printer.
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Easy to do, and I think it's quite understandable too. If you create a page layout in Illustrator and you leave it to your printer to import it into a picture box in Quark, it may not be positioned correctly. Quark places the top left corner of the Illustrator objects in the top left corner of the picture box, not necessarily the top left corner of the Illustrator page.
If you have elements beginning too far in or off of the page, it takes a little more effort on the part of your printer to correct it in Quark (which is probably where the rest of the publication is being put together). If they've got dozens of ads to place with deadlines looming, then of course they'd prefer if you positioned it yourself. A simple copy & paste on their part is far less error prone for them, and having seen the way some people put ads together in Illustrator, I couldn't really blame any printer for covering themselves!
If you have elements beginning too far in or off of the page, it takes a little more effort on the part of your printer to correct it in Quark (which is probably where the rest of the publication is being put together). If they've got dozens of ads to place with deadlines looming, then of course they'd prefer if you positioned it yourself. A simple copy & paste on their part is far less error prone for them, and having seen the way some people put ads together in Illustrator, I couldn't really blame any printer for covering themselves!
blueark makes a good point about positioning. You can deal with the difference of the X-Y origin (where the Illustrator page begins vs. where the Illustrator objects begin in the top left corner) by creating a white box in Illustrator, layered below your illustration. Size the white box to your page dimension. If you 'select all' or 'view artwork', none of your illustration's paths should extend outside the white box. If they do (because of masking or compound paths), then positioning in Quark would be a good idea.
askIllustrator
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Although people may seem stupid in their requests, most of time they are just covering their ass. I'm sure your printer is quite capable of placing your eps and might even enjoy doing that sort of thing. But the reality is he probably took it upon himself once before, missed something and caught hell for it. By now he's learned that his clients constantly leave out crucial pieces of info and therfor would rather just not chance it. Burn it to a CD though so you can grill his ass if something gets jacked. BEHOLD! As Steve Jobs introduces us the latest in desk-lamp technology!
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