Re: Re: "Professional" Graphics Programs

At 12:35 PM 4/4/01 -0800, Teresa Knezek wrote:
>At 11:02 AM -0600 4/4/01, Peggi wrote:
>>This sounds as though your printer is using a MAC.
>
>Why? All those programs are available on both platforms.

This is true.  I've had printers tell me they couldn't open PageMaker files 
that I had done on the PC.


>>In this case you may
>>want to use one of the drawing programs that  will export in an "AI EPS" 
>>format which is reliably readable by the MACs
>
>As a Mac user who's done graphics on Mac and PC, for use on either/both 
>platforms, I can say that I have never seen an instance where a Mac 
>couldn't open a file in ANY standard graphics file format, unless the file 
>was actually damaged.

Yes.  That's what I thought as well.  Same printer gave me alot of grief 
because they said I had to use AI EPS format for them to read it 
properly.  Of course, once I used that format they were still unable to 
read it.  In fact, they claimed they had a PC and weren't able to open the 
zipped files with that.  So I burned them onto CD and after extensive 
testing handed them over.  Again they weren't able to access the files - 
this was using PageMaker with the images embedded.  Needless to say, I 
stopped using that printer.

>However, I sent an image to a PC-based shop in *all* of the above formats 
>(and PDF to boot), and whatever proprietary software this particular print 
>shop used, their 'technicians' couldn't open ANY of the files. I mentioned 
>that I had opened all of them (testing for damaged files after 
>transferring to Zip disk) successfully in PhotoShop, and was told, "Oh, 
>really? That must've been the only program we didn't try to open them with."

This sounds pretty much like my experience as well.  I wound up spending 
countless hours reworking the files and they never did print them - we had 
to change printers at the 11th hour which proved extremely costly - and not 
just financially.  I swear I nearly had a nervous breakdown over this one.

Peggi

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