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- kinetic
say im working on a banner that is 17" by 11" ....this is gonna slow my sys down SOOO much. like if i put a bg on the file, it makes it 10 mb and it is sloooww!
is there any way to speed this up? in illy you can change the illustration to outlines so that it speeds it up.
any ideas?
- torres0
do you mean 17 feet by 11 feet?
I think the only thing you can do is have a ton of ram...I'd really be interested in knowing if there was some kind of low res preview also....
there really should be one.
- kyl30
use some low res placeholder images if possible
- horton0
i may be misunderstanding...
but if working with a 10mb file really slows you down, i'd say it's time for a new puter.
- kinetic0
computer is a 2 Ghz machine with 512Mb of Ram.
how the hell do they work on huge billboards? those suckers must slow computers down like crazy
- Crouwel0
now you are at it.
- torres0
512 MB ram is part of the problem... you should have at least a gig... if not more.
And yeah... their computers must be slow as shit.
- horton0
ram is your biggest problem.. if you're working under a current OS and CS2 you really want 2GB min.
redirect your scratch disk.
there's plugins that are used to accurately res-up medium sized images to large format.. Genuine Fractals PrintPro and Extensis pxl SmartScale.
- Kevin_Sweeney0
billboards only need to be designed between 36 and 72 dpi...
- b_magallanes0
I do my billboards with a PS file about 17.5" x 5.5" at 300 dpi... when they are printed, they size it up to 14 ft x 48 ft, 72 dpi. Do your background image/effects in PS then set your type with Illustrator. Should work fine.
- aliendn0
sup holmes!
- PaulAmbrose0
Wow. doing a poster on 512ram. Thats brave.
- renaphuah0
what i always do is to set the document size to half the actual size. 300 dpi or higher.
and then let the printer guy know , he can enlarge the size for you.
- aliceblue0
renaphuah
Thats the way to go
And use any backgound files as low res - for position only.
Yeah - the Printer Guy knows.
- kinetic0
hey hey! whats up shawn...long time no chat man!!!
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