Re: FN-FORUM: Mac Quark -to PC Illustrator file

date posted 21st January 2006 10:44

Also when you open the PDF file with Illustrator you can edit all=20
objects and types to suit your layout, except you cannot modify=20
embedded image within Quark - you'll have to have the original image=20
file.

Yes, your designer is trying to make money out by a simplest process of=20=

going through an export option (make sure that she select the high res.=20=

image compression option (or whatever your final publish option;=20
screen-based, or print-based - if she says she has no idea, then you=20
might consider contacting your client saying that she's a novice in=20
Quark and you prefer to work with someone 'expert' or client to request=20=

her to supply in Illustrator format without any charges)

On a different note, (ehm) happily Quark is still in use by some=20
dedicated ones - but conversion to InDesign is fast due to=20
short-sightedness of Quark software developers... sad
hth


On 21 Jan, 2006, at 10:15, Haydyn Phillips wrote:

>
> The simple answer to that my friend is that on quark xpress theres a=20=

> button
> on the file menu that says EXPORTS PAGE AS EPS. So yes she can export=20=

> it as
> an eps which is the correct native file for illustrator for litho=20
> print or
> digital. So don=92t let her rip you off.
>
> Hayd.
>
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> Mac designers help is needed?
>
> I have a design being supplied by a client as a PDF I have staed that=20=

> it
> needs to be recreated as an Illustrator file (for us to work with it,
> everyone is different I know)
>
> The designer is saying that she made the design in Quark and that to
> 'recreate' the file in Illustrator she wants =A350.
>
> Now I may not be a designer but what i do know is that files can be
> exported from one program to another. The question is can quark=20
> export a
> file as Illustrator. I recall a few years ago I had a media company
> export a Quark from Mac as a PS file but I am going back 5 years, in=20=

> fact
> I thought Quark had stopped beig used ;)
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