Hi-res images in Illustrator
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- leewilson78
Hi all,
I have designed a flyer for a local company, the flyer has a 300 dpi image as it backdrop, the image outside of illustrator is 7.1 MB, when I save the illustrator file as a PDF or EPS file to send to the printers, it increases the file size to 60MB, too big to email to the printers.
Have I done something wrong here, how do I include a 7.1 MB image without increasing the file size to 60 MB?
Appreciate any help.
Thanks
- Nairn0
Uncheck the save as 'editable PDF' or whatever in the save menu and don't embed the file - keep it as a linked file within the same folder, then zip/wer that up and send it on.
- SkyPoo0
Have you cropped the image right down to the size you need it?
Are you saving it in the correct colour profile?
Are you linking it or embedding it?
linking it is better but you have to supply the image tooIs it an eps file? these are usually bigger. Try a tiff
- agentfour0
save as eps or print to postscript file. Then distill using either press quality or any settings provided by printer.
final pdf will probably end up being less than 4mb.
- formed0
delete layers that you have turned off, that can make a big difference
Occasionally, I'll get a stubborn file and have to copy/paste everything into a new ai file. (just check "Remember layer order", or something like that, to keep the layer order)
...and what they said ^
- pylon0
Have you up-scaled your background image in Illustrator? IIRC this will cause the image to upsample and thus make a larger image.
At the end of the day, 60mb is a respectable file-size. Can't you just FTP it?
- drgss0
image outside of illustrator is in what format originally?
- JPGleewilson78
- That's why, then. It's uncompressing, likely.pylon
- leewilson780
I have managed to get it over to them, strange, I link the image as oppose to embedding it, I sent of the pdf's and the image separately, apparently, they can see the image in the design fine, without the JPG file. With the image linked, the file size went down to 15mb.
- pylon0
Make sure you get good proofs to sign off on — sending files with links and not embeds makes me nervous.
- formed0
That'd make me nervous too. Make you look at a test. it could be that they are seeing a preview version on their screen, not the full res image.
60mb isn't bad. I haven't sent a bitmap image to print less than 100mb is a long time.