A friend helped me out desinging a small ad. for me in Quark. It then needs to be saved as an aEPS file for the digital printers. He sent it to me and I cannot for the life of me open it.
I would have thought CS would open it. Using a Graphite G4 with buckets of memory (1.5 gb) the message I get is that "it cannot perform function requested (?) because of lack of memory". Memory is set at 70%.
Am I off base here?
And if CS is not SUPPOSED to open Quark files why not just give me the damn message so I know what the hell is going on.
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Only QXP can open Quark 5 & 6 files — although InDesign can open QXP 3.3.2 and 4.1.1 files.
If you can’t open his file in anything that you have, and want to make changes, ask him for an EPS which you can open in Illustrator; or for a PDF if it is ready to go to Press.
Is it a Quark document/project or a Quark eps? Two different animals. Photoshop can open Quark eps files; I do it all the time. Is he asking you to save it as an eps? That has to be done from inside Quark.
If it is an eps and you can’t open it I would suspect it was saved incorrectly out of Quark.
By the way, it would be silly to send the printer a Quark eps. They are not really fit for printing. Why not just send them the Quark doc? Almost every professional print outfit can handle Quark documents. Or send them a pdf made from Quark.
Yeah – make a PDF. If you WERE to save the layout as a quark EPS and then open in photoshop, you would of course lose the crispness of your text and linework, unless you rasterized at a really high resolution (>1200dpi). Also, you would need all the fonts that were used in the Quark document or your text would default to courier.
Printers don’t want an EPS saved out of Photoshop – they want an illustrator eps or, even better, a PDF.
I was a bit unclear. This is a step in the process the trade guide publisher will convert the files from Quark to PDF and print from there. I just wanted to see what the thing looked like after we had spent so much time messing with it.
Any printer worth his salt should be able to handle native files.
Quark .eps files are notoriously flaky, and will often induce a parser error when attempting to open in an Adobe product.
Quark .eps files can NOT be opened by Quark, they can only be placed.
Sometimes you can open QXP.eps files in Illustrator and maintain fonts and vectors, but that is hit-or-miss, and if you don’t get a parser error the fonts may jump around a little, but since you only are looking to preview the ad, and not edit it and save in Photoshop, then by all means rasterize away.
As suggested above your friend would be better off making a PDF of the ad with press optimization (+bleed if there is any). The printer can use this and you can preview it easily, with Adobe Reader.
If you really want to preview the ad from your friends QXP.eps file, let us know what other software you have.
I forgot all about the Place function. Tried to open directly – as grayed file.
Now here you go. I try to place the files and the following error message appears – at this point I am just trying to make sure the EPS is actually OK before I send if off.
Message : VNError error ocurred creating the screen display for the imported EPS. The EWPS will draw as a gray box . The actual EPA may not print and will not export as PDF. Do you still want to place this file?
End Message – Or Mess – depending how you feel about the whole thing ;-))
Where in my contract does it say I have to know how to do that?
I had a good but quick look (don’t use InDesign much – D’ja notice?) and cannot find nor have I yet been given, in the several different attempts, the option to decline the preview presentation.
Doing what vacuming the air intakes on twenty computers?
No!
I have my own issues – way too many digital files in need of captions and CS is set up way wrong to bulk caption in the browser AND I am sure Adobe knows it.
Yeah but you can’t go grab a snapple ….Right Now! or a beer (@ 5) or a glass of wine.
Besides who else is going to caption 1000 of my images. There is nobody out there who could do it much less would do it. If I typed worth a —— it would be OK but…….
But you are right I am beginning to enjoy closing the office doors on weekends and not even checking email. Though some of my contacts on a big project are in Australia & NZ so I am on their time.
Are you a photographer as well or JUST a graphic designer?
It is a photoshop EPS, wait you are right I may not even know what the hell kind of file I have.
I checked file info and it gave me Photoshop EPS but I am sure the work orignally done in Quark 4 and then converted. Will Quark let you ocnvert to particular type of EPS file? I have no clue in this area.
I am going to jumo back to the guy who did the work and twist his ear and see where we go.
Thanks
I’ll get back to you if I can work out what the scoop is. I thiknk I may just be working with a corrrupted Photoshop eps file.
You live here I come only with issues – see the circle? Life is one big one.
Yes, I am back where I started. And yes I realize that EPS is the fiels format but surmized that may be differences between a coverted photoshop image and and original eps file (for example).
So if you have nothing better to do….if my colleague took a composite of images dropped it into Quark added text and then comnverted to EPS as I believe he did – Why do I have a file which when I use file info tells me I am inspecting a Photoshop EPS file. In a word is that possible? Yes – No?
The circle tightens almost to the poinbt where I am going to fall over ont this thing.
There is the distinct possibility that when that EPS was made in QXP (using Save Page As EPS) that the guy forgot to include a tiff preview. If he included a preview, you should be able to open that EPS from inside Illustrator which would let you see the graphics AND provide editable text.
Opening that EPS from inside Photoshop would rasterize the text.
Ok! So I should cut the rope and finish the job with the fall. rasterize, vector – You guys talk funny – almost as funny as the biologists I have to work with.
Back to 1 – Photoshop won’t open it – (Could not complete my request because there is not enough memery).
And I am not an Illustrator is you get my drift, Wish I had it but I do not. Closest I get is InDesign which I got to print out small 4X6 prints and rarely use but when I use it works.
Adobe Rocks!!!!!! Except the CS browser batch captionning capacity – I don’t write code but I can do a better job or should I say I could a better job which more accuratly meest the needs of my customers not the marketing bosses in the company. Everybody else can do it why is CS the only paranoid software that cannot. I’ll tell why – Control.
YOu are showing your tech. weenie side. The issue has always been how do you open this file. The infoemation provided has never changed other than my inability to tell you exactly how the file I know as a Photoshop EPS got that way.
Other wise this all about the details. Who wants to email me a copy of Illustrator and we can continue this into the wee hours? Otherwise the file is about 13MB who has an FTP site? Ann?
If you need to edit the text in the Quark-made EPS (but do not have Illustrator), it is possible to Place the EPS in InDesign and then Export to PDF and then do (limited) "Text Touch-ups" in Acrobat 6 Pro.
(You won’t be able to edit the text in a Placed EPS in InDesign.)
Alternatively, as I mentioned earlier, if he sends you a QXP 4 document, you would be able to open that AND edit it in InDesign.
You could also download the trial version of Illustrator.
This is what is curious. I am sure he told me it was a QXp doc but shows up as Photoshop EPS. And photoshop won’t do it. I am going to check. Either way it ain’t happening tonight.
But I appreciate your help and the help of those many others who put in their .02. It is appreciated. I like knowing I can frustrate the poop out of myself and then sign on and send out and emergency message.
It STARTED as a QXP document but he almost certainly did a "Save Page as EPS" from inside Quark — and that is what he sent to you.
EPS files are curious creatures which can contain both bitmap (rasterized) images and Vector objects and type. If you open them in Illustrator, the vectors are still intact.
