Expert: Amy - 8/5/2004

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Dear Amy:
iMac 450, OS9.2.1, Illustrator 9.02

I am back again.  I have designed a logo that I want to send to a friend of mine who has a PC.  He wants to see the logo and then send it to another friend by e-mail.  I tried sending it as a BMP and tiff file and he either cannot open the BMP file or the tiff file is poor quality.  Any advice?

Thanks,

Ron


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Hi Ron,

My first choice would be to save as a PDF file from Illustrator.  PDF is one of the filetype choices when you File > Save As.

A note about fonts in PDF documents. Either convert all the fonts in the document to outlines before you save it or embed subsets of the fonts when saving.  

If the person on the PC doesn't have Acrobat Reader (even tho it's free), exporting the graphic to a JPEG from Illustrator will probably do just fine. He can open that in just about anything, including Explorer.

Make sure the logo in your document is sized to the exact size you want him to view it at. Use File>Export and you'll probably want at least 300 dpi resolution on export, with minimal or no compression to assure that the details of the logos aren't lost during export. If file size is no issue and your graphic has a lot of detail, increase that dpi a little...400?  Sure, there's going to be a little loss of clarity, but you can make a JPEG smaller in disk size than a TIFF.

Hope this helps!

-Amy

Amy:

Did everything you suggested but the PDF file isn't as clean as we want.    Maybe I did something wrong with the PDF file.  I did try to save it as "save for web" and that seemed to work better.

Ron

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Hey Ron,

Could you send me the AI 9 file with fonts embedded if applicable? I'm just curious as to why the PDF isn't clear enough...

Send it to my yahoo address, which is AmyLynPace@yahoo.com

They let you have like 100 free MBs in Yahoo now, whereas my local ISP only gives me 6 megs of mailbox space.  Unbelievable.  

-Amy