Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
The print shop wants an Adobe eps file. So I exported the xara file to the Adobe Illustrator .ai .eps. setting in the Xara Extreme export menu. But for some reason the exported file has two lines of text transposed. It arbitrarily relocated my phone number and my email address.
Is there a better way to export these xara files correctly so a printer can use them?
Thank-you.
mg
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
1. convert your text to objects before exporting
OR
2. If the text is frame text or regular text with a hard return, try making each line of text two separate text objects.
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3. Give them a hi-res tiff and tell them you exported it
from Illustrator
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4. Tell them to look for a differenct customer.
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
Thank-you for the reply.
I converted the text to editable shapes and then exported it and it worked. Ta Da! I do like this software.
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
You can likewise use the Adobe PDF export which is also the Illustrator native file format (newer versions of Illustrator can open and edit PDF files). And if you export as PDF the formatting, effects, etc. are in the proper position.
Gary
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
Thank-you for the additional input. I appreciate all the help.
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Xtreme
mg, I concur that PDF is probably the best option these days. But I think Gary means the PDF export within Xara Xtreme, you don't need Adobe. This is one of Xtreme's new features.
Just choose File > Export, then under there is a PDF file format.
But if you got there with EPS in the end, that's great. :)
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
It turned out the Illustrator export didn't work after all. It looked good when I opened the export in Xara Extreme, but it didn't open correctly at the print shop. The outline for the fonts had somehow reversed colors.
So now I will try the pdf route.
mg
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
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Originally Posted by jclements
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4. Tell them to look for a differenct customer.
Tell them to look for a different customer? What sort of advice is that?
So the customer offers a professional printer some dodgy file, that won't open correctly in his professional software, and it is the printer's responsibility to spend time to sort it all out?
Well time is money, and if the customer wants to pay the printer to sort out the mess, then fine, but it would have been quicker and cheaper to get the printer to design the business card in the first place.
But, 'everyone is a designer'.
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
Auberon
If you run a printing company, remind me never to use your services.
Egg
Re: Exporting a business card from Xara Extreme
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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Auberon
If you run a printing company, remind me never to use your services.
Egg
If I were, I needn't worry too much, you obviously never send out anything for print. :D