Graphic Designers - Business Card Help

[advres]

You can export an AutoCAD drawing to an EPS file. I'm not sure how good of a quality you get though.

EPS is a vector file so you won't loose quality. You could blow it up 5 gajillion times and the quality would be preserved.

[Rideski]

Kinda on the run today, but here is the skinny.

You want a file set up from native format of Indesign, quark, or AI
(not word, pagemaker, autocad, publisher, etc)

You want fonts embedded, or included in a zipped folder

You want bleed built into the document of 1/4 inch. Paginated 4 up on a 5.5 x 8.5

You want this created as Black plus Pantone 391

You do NOT want this created as 4cp, cmyk, or rgb.

The panel on the side could be whatever percentage of 391 you want, like maybe 50% so that your name in 100% overprints well. Line screen of 175.

I'm out for most of the day.

Cheers.

[Woodlandclown]

He gave me the pdf file and I opened it in Illustrator. The fonts were weird. They were coming up as multiple weirdly shaped splines instead of a single one for each letter. a "t" for example was broke into 3 different splines for no reason! That was where the "line" was coming from. The splines didn't connect to each other so was not completing the object. It must have been through the conversion or something, because I don't see why a font would work like that?!?

i dont know what a spline is? is that crazy?

maybe you dont have the font he used--probably font not converted to outline? probably cant do that in CAD. Would be easier to create the business card in illustrator. why dont you (encore) give someone the text, logo etc to be used and explain what you want done. probably anyone here could create it pretty quickly.

[encore]

why dont you (encore) give someone the text, logo etc to be used and explain what you want done.

I wouldn't expect someone to do it for freee. Yeah, the card is pretty simple but it would still take some time. I could just build it in PhotoShop and then have someone save it as Illustrator - that is pretty easy isn't it?

[Woodlandclown]

I wouldn't expect someone to do it for freee. Yeah, the card is pretty simple but it would still take some time. I could just build it in PhotoShop and then have someone save it as Illustrator - that is pretty easy isn't it?

no - but why would you need to create it in photoshop and save it in another program? If you create it in photoshop, have someone in photoshop work on it for you.

[encore]

no - but why would you need to create it in photoshop and save it in another program? If you create it in photoshop, have someone in photoshop work on it for you.

OK. I say Photoshop because that's the only other program I have. I figured since Photoshop and Illustrator are both Adobe products, you could do it pretty easily.

[Woodlandclown]

OK. I say Photoshop because that's the only other program I have. I figured since Photoshop and Illustrator are both Adobe products, you could do it pretty easily.

you would think that but then they wouldnt be able to sell all of the products in a bundle.

[agentorange]

you would think that but then they wouldnt be able to sell all of the products in a bundle.

errr.... you can bring in various graphic files (.psd, .jpg, .tif, etc) into illustrator and then save as ai if you needed to. It is compatible & can import other adobe formats but the fact that illustrator is a very different program than photoshop is the reason they sell it as a distinctly different program.

[Woodlandclown]

errr.... you can bring in various graphic files (.psd, .jpg, .tif, etc) into illustrator and then save as ai if you needed to. It is compatible & can import other adobe formats but the fact that illustrator is a very different program than photoshop is the reason they sell it as a distinctly different program.

you can bring in the files, but you will not necessarily be able to edit all aspects. The programs are different. that was the point, why create something in photoshop and then save as an .ai.

[flatlander420]

Hey encore I just sent you a 2/c, 4 up pdf. I tried to rebuild it but I couldn't match the header font. It should work for your printer, just don't zoom in on the text, its rough.