Setting question, Photo & Graphic Designer 10

**Sean Yang** · 12 January 2015, 06:19 AM

hello,
i am working with "Photo & Graphic Designer 10".
i had create one image with the template from my colleague (image 01) and i try to export it to a eps file.
but when i reopen this file then i saw a totally different one (image 02).
I ask my colleague to open my eps file and he saw the good one like image 01.
so, I think it could caused by some setting of the tool.. please help me with it.

thanks
Sean

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**gwpriester** · 12 January 2015, 12:29 PM

Welcome to TalkGraphics

Export your image as PDF, (PDF/X if this is an option). Or Illustrator .AI. PDF can export vector as well as bitmaps.

Nice logo design.

**wizard509** · 12 January 2015, 08:46 PM

While I really don't know what you did, it looks like image 02 page is portrait while o1 is landscape. If you look under utilities/options you will find a page size tab, if it is not locked you can drag the bottom and right side to change the page size that way, or change the orientation in the page size tab, unless you save the new settings as a new default template it will open to what you had before.
I just created a test eps and opened it in both XDPX and XP&GD. It worked fine, and looked just like what I created.

**Fred C** · 12 January 2015, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Nice logo design.

Yep! Just like this one.http://www.advantech.com/

**gwpriester** · 12 January 2015, 10:02 PM

When you open an EPS in Xara there is no telling how it will come in. The same file opened in Illustrator probably comes in correctly.

Mike W and I frequently have this discussion and we disagree. That said, EPS is meant primarily to be "placed" in a publishing app such as InDesign and QuarkXPress. .AI is intended to be edited in Illustrator or vector applications. PDF is the most recent incarnation of these file formats and is Illustrator's native file formal and a format that is much better supported by Xara products.

**Sean Yang** · 20 January 2015, 02:00 AM

Sorry, late reply..

i did a test, i create a new file with only the page size setting and then export to the "Adobe Illustrator" (which i need..).
the result i got is... the page setting is gone when i re-open this file.
if i save the file to XAR format then everything fine.
as you say that it might be ok when i open this file with illustrator.
so, is it means i don't have any chance to check the correct illustrator eps file with xara???

thanks~

**angelize** · 20 January 2015, 02:39 AM

As Gary said try exporting as pdf

**mwenz** · 20 January 2015, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by Sean Yang

Sorry, late reply..

i did a test, i create a new file with only the page size setting and then export to the "Adobe Illustrator" (which i need..).
the result i got is... the page setting is gone when i re-open this file.
if i save the file to XAR format then everything fine.
as you say that it might be ok when i open this file with illustrator.
so, is it means i don't have any chance to check the correct illustrator eps file with xara???

thanks~

Always save your Xara file as a XAR file...the native format. Then export it to AI, PDF, or whatever. That is always th best work-flow and applies to all applications.

This is your logo in Xara, note the page size:

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I exported it as an AI file, then opened the file in Adobe Illustrator. Note the page size is the same:

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Xara products do not respect the page size in an AI/EPS drawing and basically import them into your default page template. A PDF format page size is respected on opening, but you should still save your Xara's application design as a native XAR file.

Mike

**Sean Yang** · 20 January 2015, 05:59 AM

ok, I got it.
I don't have problem with pdf and xar file from very beginning, i can export it to a correct pdf and xar file.
but, i need to export it to eps or ai file for certain case.
and because i re-open the eps i saved, it looks totally different as i expect,, so, i come up with this question.
now, i know the eps file i created would looks ok with Adobe Illustrator then it is ok to me.

thanks

**Albacore** · 21 January 2015, 09:10 AM

Sean the other way to do it is to change your text to a shape (Shift+Ctrl+S) and then export it as EPS or AI. Sean can't export his file as PDF X-1a as that option is not available in PGD I think only PDF 1.7/Adobe Reader 8, but the use of PDF, it is the best way Sean if the file is going to someone with AI.