EXPORT command not appearing

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John_Forrest
Apr 3, 2004
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Cannot EXPORT a file. The "export" function is grayed-out

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Beth_Haney
Apr 3, 2004
That command was put in there by Adobe as a carryover from full Photoshop, but basically it’s not usable with Elements. (An Adobe guy explained this once a long time ago, but I don’t happen to remember the details.)

What do you want to do? It’s likely there’s another command that will accomplish what you need.
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Barbara_Brundage
Apr 3, 2004
Hi, John. That’s because you don’t really need to "export." Just save your file in a format that the app you want to use the picture in can read, like TIFF or JPG and open it in the new application. The export menu is always empty/unavailable. See the post from Rich Coencas from Adobe here for more about why that is:

Richard Coencas "Export to e-mail" 10/23/03 7:52am </cgi-bin/webx?13/12>
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Barbara_Brundage
Apr 3, 2004
Woops, ya beat me, Beth.
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Beth_Haney
Apr 3, 2004
And you saved me the trouble of looking that up, which is what I’d come back to do. Thanks! 🙂
JF
John_Forrest
Apr 3, 2004
Thanks for the sppedy rely! I was hoping I could export files as an .ai Illustrator file (wishful thinking!)
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Chuck_Snyder
Apr 3, 2004
Joh, I don’t know what kinds of files Illustrator will open, but you can save your images in Elements in a variety of formats. Perhaps .pdf files would work with Illustrator?

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