Help exporting vehicle wrap!!!

[Sharx]

I use Xara for some of our wrap layouts. You don't need 300 dpi at full scale! 72 to 100 is plenty and you won't tell the difference. I typically do the layout 1/10 scale and export at 720 dpi. I can't explain the difference that someone explained to me once, but just do a small test print and you'll see what I'm talking about.

here is a link to some of the wraps we did, all designed in Xara, at 1/10 scale and exported at 720. (for 72 dpi at full scale) includes some close ups.

http://www.sharxskinz.com/#Sharx%20Skinz

[gwpriester]

That's great Sharx. Thanks for sharing.

Now we need to get you to use Xara for your website

[Sharx]

That's great Sharx. Thanks for sharing.

Now we need to get you to use Xara for your website

It sort of is... Magix Online.

[lithium258]

I use Xara for some of our wrap layouts. You don't need 300 dpi at full scale! 72 to 100 is plenty and you won't tell the difference. I typically do the layout 1/10 scale and export at 720 dpi. I can't explain the difference that someone explained to me once, but just do a small test print and you'll see what I'm talking about.

here is a link to some of the wraps we did, all designed in Xara, at 1/10 scale and exported at 720. (for 72 dpi at full scale) includes some close ups.

http://www.sharxskinz.com/#Sharx%20Skinz

Now that's the answer I wanted to read THANK YOU Sharx!

[Fred vanderZee]

Theoratically, exporting to pdf should do the trick, since pdf can use vectors that scale. However, I have tried it on my own images and found that some parts of the image are rendered incororenctly ot not at all.
I used both the built-in pdf-exporter as well as cute-pdf. Most of the time Xara simply crashes.
I will try to use the dpi-trick of sharx and compare the images.

Some notes on my images: I draw them on A1 (approx. 84 x 62 cm). Because I use high-quality printers, I need to use at least 150dpi tiff-exports. I make A0-images by exporting them at 300dpi and have it print in twice the size (resilting in a 150dpi end result).
Oh, and of course my images are kinda... complicated: lots of layers, containing many transparant groups, made of transparent and range-filled objects. Kinda

_{BTW: I have had contact with xara-support about htis; initial ticket is handled well but my responses (inlcuding example images) are going in some void: next thing I usually hear is that the ticket is closed, because of no reaction . Oh welll...}

[jclements]

To Sharx:
Nice Ford Falcon (in 1964 took my drivers training classes in one ).