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Art is too complex to save as TIFF

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Lora Elfstrum

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Feb 26, 2003, 2:36:29 PM2/26/03
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I have an Illustrator line art doc that is 210" x 36" and I need to convert to .tif.

The error message is "The art is too complex or too large to save as TIFF. Try saving with Anti-Aliasing not selected".

Settings are...Res-Med, NO anti-alis, NO LZW, Byte Order IBM PC.

How can I get this file as a .tif. That's my only format I can use for this project.

Thanks,

Philip Peterson

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Feb 26, 2003, 3:11:43 PM2/26/03
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You might try Object>path>simplify (with curves set to 100%) and object>path>clean up.

Also flatten the artwork.

(Basically just whatever you can do to simplify the job...)

Jeffrey Dixon

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Feb 26, 2003, 3:46:14 PM2/26/03
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...or you could save it as an Illustrator .pdf and then open it in photoshop and save it as a .tif

j

Adam Lane

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Feb 26, 2003, 7:15:04 PM2/26/03
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Your artwork is probably too WIDE to work. There is a limitation on the horizontal dimension of a TIFF file and it's some number less than 16 thousand. The exact limit depends upon a great deal of things.

Try rotating your artwork 90 degrees so that the 36 inch dimension is the horizontal one.

LenHewitt

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Feb 27, 2003, 4:18:19 AM2/27/03
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Lora,

That file is going to make a TIFF file 31,500 px x 5400px and over 600
Mbytes. That would probably require around 3 - 6 gigs or RAM/scratch to
rasterize successfully......

You wouldn't even be able to open that TIFF file in Photoshop (which has a
30,000 px) limit even if you WERE able to create it from Illustrator.

The question is, why do you NEED to rasterize it? The quality will be
considerably better as vector....


BobHill

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Feb 27, 2003, 1:14:26 PM2/27/03
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That's not a total of 30,000 pixels, of course, but a one dimension figure (like width of over 30,000 pixels) as the limit. Think of it as a limit of 100"x 100" image at 300ppi.

Bob

Joel Stransky

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Feb 27, 2003, 2:42:51 PM2/27/03
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Check with your printer. Sometimes I'll reduce the image by half but increase the res I export at so when the printer blows it back up the res is correct. I really wouldn't rely on AI to export it though. Try either opening your AI file in PS and setting a resolution during the rasterization, or export to photoshop format out of AI, open it in PS and save as a .tif from there. Also, if it doesnt need to be CMYK, RGB will create a smaller file.
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