Help exporting vehicle wrap!!!

**gwpriester** · 13 April 2012, 10:12 PM

You may have trouble exporting an image that large. You might have to export as JPEG with some compression.

See the attached for the resolution setting in the export bitmap dialog.

**lithium258** · 13 April 2012, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

You may have trouble exporting an image that large. You might have to export as JPEG with some compression.

See the attached for the resolution setting in the export bitmap dialog.

Exactly. But whatever I type or choose there won't work and Xara will export with other resolution. It seems it uses the higher available resolution value it can provide. At 10% of size, it would do 300 DPI but not bigger. If I put 1200 DPI for 10% (about 20" width) it will take out the latest cero and export at 120 DPI only.

**Gamerprinter** · 14 April 2012, 03:21 AM

At least Xara Xtreme 4 has a size limitation on what it can export at 300 ppi. I often export 24 x 36 full color to 300 ppi TIF or JPG. However, Xara won't let me export much larger than that. I don't think Xara is the best application for full color vector/photo as it applies to large format applications like vehicle wraps. I create maps in Xara for large format printing. While I'd like to do 300 ppi 36 x 48 or larger, Xara won't let me. If XPD 7 is an exception - forget what I'm saying. But Xara always had a maximize size/resolution - I know, I've tried.

**Albacore** · 14 April 2012, 09:18 AM

Why is everyone talking in bitmaps? Why not download some form of PDF maker and send it to print to the PDF engine! If the Aram can't find suitable maker, mind you there're plenty of them about, then they could always PM me and I could do it for him.

**steve.ledger** · 14 April 2012, 12:36 PM

Cool, freebies !

**lithium258** · 14 April 2012, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Albacore

Why is everyone talking in bitmaps? Why not download some form of PDF maker and send it to print to the PDF engine! If the Aram can't find suitable maker, mind you there're plenty of them about, then they could always PM me and I could do it for him.

Ehem...can you tell me more please? PDF maker? Do you mean something like a PDF printer, like Adobe Acrobat's? I have the CS5 suit with Adobe Acrobat 9...do you mean I can print the artwork to PDF and there configure it to output like the printer guys ask (215x72"@300dpi? How do I do that!

Sorry my ignorance in this theme...I have being designing and coding for almost 20 years but have never ever done something bigger than a wall poster; worked like 5 years for a printer in the 90's but thats it...

**gwpriester** · 14 April 2012, 05:59 PM

Well the first thing you could try is to export the document to PDF from Designer Pro. I would try the Commercial Printing PDF/X 300dpi) setting.

If you can output that file then this should be sufficient for your printer. Try this an let us know.

What Peter was recommending is more complicated.

**lithium258** · 15 April 2012, 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Well the first thing you could try is to export the document to PDF from Designer Pro. I would try the Commercial Printing PDF/X 300dpi) setting.

If you can output that file then this should be sufficient for your printer. Try this an let us know.

What Peter was recommending is more complicated.

Ok this is what I got:

Exporting or printing to PDF doesn't dice: when exporting I get multiple and massive "Access violation at..." kind of messages and their "Out of memory" little friends

Even if I have 4GB in this machine and everything else closed. In the case of printing to PDF, via Adobe Acrobat 9 it just doesn't do anything. It acts like if I have clicked the Cancel button.

I have tried almost all export formats and get either Xara crashed, or the whole system crashed

or nothing at all.

Now, exporting to TIFF, 10% of the size it allows me to put 700 DPI max --this didn't worked for JPG, BMP, PNG formats. The file size isn't that bad: 14MB. Then can go to Photoshop and save it as JPG max quality --printer's request. The Image -> Image size dialog confirms it is 700 DPI. Saving the JPG drops the file size to 7MB.

Now I have a new question: do you guys think this is enough for the printer to resize it to the correct size and have it at 300 DPI. I'm confused since by math: 10% of size at 700 DPI would yield 100% size at 70 DPI, that's without resampling I guess, uh?

[EDIT]

So I went to Photoshop and typed the 100% width and 300 DPI with Resampling box checked. It saved as TIFF and made a 400MB file. The other possible formats are PSB and RAW.

However I won't be able to deliver such big file, so I ask again: would you guys think the 10% @ 700 DPI file would work for the printer?