Help exporting vehicle wrap!!!

**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?

**Albacore** · 15 April 2012, 09:46 AM

Have you a copy of Adobe Distiller? if not try Cute PDF and you can get it here; http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp
Also have a look at PDF 995 as I have heard good reports about it but have not used it: http://www.pdf995.com/
Final thought if you want to make money with your designs why not upgrade your software to the Pro version it is worth the money just for the PDF export filter. If you have bought PS why not upgrade and get Acro Pro as it is one of the Adobe products it worth the money if you upgrade to the CS suite.

**lithium258** · 15 April 2012, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Albacore

Have you a copy of Adobe Distiller? if not try Cute PDF and you can get it here; http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp
Also have a look at PDF 995 as I have heard good reports about it but have not used it: http://www.pdf995.com/
Final thought if you want to make money with your designs why not upgrade your software to the Pro version it is worth the money just for the PDF export filter. If you have bought PS why not upgrade and get Acro Pro as it is one of the Adobe products it worth the money if you upgrade to the CS suite.

But would that help me to get the right file for the printer? Now the customer is asking for another design...and I haven't found the right way to deliver the stuff, of course, I told them from the begining I'm new into car wraps...