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We run two Esko Flowdrive workflows (v5.2) with Harlequin rips under the hood (don't know the version but I'm guessing quite old). We use pre-separated pdfs in our impositions, imposed using Preps.
As a company, we have begun moving over to Illustrator CS4 from Freehand. We are finding however that jobs are taking huge amounts of time to rip. Literally hours and hours. This is a situation we never encountered when using Freehand. Is Illustrator vector art (when converted to postscript and then PDF) more complex than Freehand? We're left wondering if the Adobe upgrade path has overtaken the capabilities of the Harlequin.
Has anyone else encountered such an issue?
As a company, we have begun moving over to Illustrator CS4 from Freehand. We are finding however that jobs are taking huge amounts of time to rip. Literally hours and hours. This is a situation we never encountered when using Freehand. Is Illustrator vector art (when converted to postscript and then PDF) more complex than Freehand? We're left wondering if the Adobe upgrade path has overtaken the capabilities of the Harlequin.
Has anyone else encountered such an issue?