AICS3 into artpro & package - what format image files?

[khasmir]

Hi all,

I would recommend to use unlayered multi-channel tiff files, so you just have to enable the spot option when you save the tiff in photoshop. When you save a PDF compatible AI file or export a PDF, the highres image will be embedded, when you then import into Artpro, it will extract the image. This will create a new tiff but it should be the same as the original if you did not use jpeg compression of course.
But you will not have an OPI link to the tiff unless you use inPDF.

PSD images should also work fine since Artpro 8.5 I think but there are some limitations.


Hope this helps.

[johnqdesign]

HI,
I dont know if this is any help, but I use a lot of illustrator files from designers, so when we get DCS files which are linked in illustrator, we would resave the
DCS files as PSD files and embedd them in the illustrator, and also Photoshop eps files we would resave as Tiffs and embedd these,
this also stops the files sliceing
in Artpro when you import.....
JQ

[Bobmorli]

EPS and DSC image files tend to cause problems in Artpro. So far no one from EskoArtwork has given me a conclusive answer to that. As far as i know we have always resaved DCS and EPS files to PSD, relink/embed them in Illustrator and import them into artpro. Since you can just drop a PSD into artpro, we often use this to replace images after a Nexus PDF / AI import if we see slicing has happend.

[wesley]

You mentioned you have PackEdge software suite 7. Do you also have Deskpack? We "Launch Task" from illustrator into a workflow on Backstage that creates a "normalized" pdf file for Packedge. A DCS placed in CS3 or .psd file works in either case. CS3 seems to be pretty unstable in our experience. There are occasions where the ct may look incorrect with overprint preview in Illustrator, but we usually ignore, as the pdf looks fine. We have chosen to write out .ct files for images in PackEdge just because we are stubborn diehards that are used to doing it that way in case we need to switch out later and feel comfortable. Our trainer suggested we keep embedded images which makes sense for a compact pdf workflow. You must have Backstage, just place your dcs or psd files with extra channels in your CS3 document and import to a normalized pdf. It always has worked great for us. We have seats of Artpro here, but with SS7 see no reason to mess with it unless we have to. The native pdf format is far more attractive than an artpro file as a final format.

[hbixu]

in cs3 link tiff ,then relink eps for save as eps 8

[alang66]

I think you'll find this slicing that occurs is something to do with Adobe's PDF creation and occurs on JPEG compressed images. Only images that are uncompressed, embedded into Illustrator or compressed with JPEG2000 seem to remain as whole image data. PSDs seem to be compressed with JPEG or something that causes the slicing.

As far as answering the original question, if I was wanting a smooth workflow, have control over image format and wanted to retain same linked file in Illustrator and Artpro - I'd use TIFF and an TIFF FPO for Illustrator if you have ability to generate one with spot channels intact. We have quite an old version of FullPress OPI which works OK but doesn't give spot channels on TIFF FPOs. I'm sure newer versions do.

[Ajinkya]

Please my dear friedns help me with this

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