Line Art Illustrator and EPS

[mericat]

Dear Everyone

I am supposed to send some artwork off to a flag maker. I just want some logos on flags and have noticed in their quote that they say they want it done in Line Art Illustrator and saved to EPS.

Help! Whatever do they mean?

Thanks Getting a thing about blues and purples

 

[viol8ion]

They want vector based graphics, which would be designed with Adobe Illustrator, or CorelDraw. Vector graphics are different from raster graphics which are what you get in Photoshop in that they can be scaled larger without losing information.

Who created your logos? if you have any files with .ai or .cdr extensions, they would most likely be line art (if designed properly) and can be converted using the app they were designed with into EPS. When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

http://www.wuli.com

 

[mericat]

Thanks, had a job getting these logos at all from teh companies involved and they are .jpg's. I don't think I have much hope of providing this in a format they can get the best out of. I'm sure they will manage with them as they are, but it's disappointing.

Thanks for your help again! Getting a thing about blues and purples

 

[viol8ion]

I doubt they will be able to use a JPG, which is a raster graphic, and not the recommended type for reproduction in any case. JPG's are lossy, which means everytime you open and save the file, even if you did no modifications, it compresses itself and loses information, and becomes lower in quality. TIFs and JPGs also cannot be scaled without losing quality, because to make them larger the application has to add information where none existed. It fakes it by adding what it thinks should go, but since it is not real info, you get pixelation and distortion of the image. That is whatthe flag company wants an EPS, and I bet they will insist on it also, since a poor quality flag will reflect poorly on them, even though it would not be their fault.

If I were you I would contact the companies involved, or the person ordering the flag and INSIST on appropriate artwork. Trying to make a quality flag would be the same as trying to drive your car with deisel fuel rather than petrol (unless you drive a deisel).. it don't run! When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

http://www.wuli.com