Sending Illustrator Artwork to printer

[Majicman17@adobeforums.com]

I have created a simple Illustrator design completly in Illustrator. In
other words, I do not have any .tifs, .psd files or other images placed into
the document. I have created a special effect on one of the words with the
standard Illustrator effects. It is a "neon" glow. I sent the .ai file to
the printer, and they have asked for the linked artwork. I have discovered
that Illustrator has created linked artwork for the image, but I have no
idea how to use it.

Does anyone know where I can find the artwork to send to the printer, what
format it is in, or have any suggestions?

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Seth Meranda
web<at>meranda<dot>org

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

No, there is NO linked artwork if you never placed any artwork in the first place.

If you backsaved the file or flattened, among other things, you can create raster elements in the Illustrator file. These are still embedded and are Illustrator elements regardless if it now shows in the links palette.

It seems you are asking about a symptom instead of the root problem.

What version was the artwork created in?
What version was the file saved to?
What version does your printer use?
Does your printer support transparency?
Is this artwork suppose to be spot color and did you check your separations?

If you are just interested in getting the now raster image out and into Photoshop, see this or have your printer see this thread (if they do not know how to extract the images) <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bb518a5>

Most likely your printer does know how but they have to ask if you actually do have a supporting image.

[Majicman17@adobeforums.com]

>What version was the artwork created in?

Illustrator CS

>What version was the file saved to?

Illustrator CS

>What version does your printer use?

Illustrator CS

>Does your printer support transparency?

Checking on this.

>Is this artwork suppose to be spot color and did you check your

separations?

How do I do this?

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Seth Meranda
web<at>meranda<dot>org



<John_Kallios@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
news:3bb53dc6.0@webx.la2eafNXanI...

> No, there is NO linked artwork if you never placed any artwork in the

first place.

>
> If you backsaved the file or flattened, among other things, you can create

raster elements in the Illustrator file. These are still embedded and are
Illustrator elements regardless if it now shows in the links palette.

>
> It seems you are asking about a symptom instead of the root problem.
>
> What version was the artwork created in?
> What version was the file saved to?
> What version does your printer use?
> Does your printer support transparency?
> Is this artwork suppose to be spot color and did you check your

separations?

>
> If you are just interested in getting the now raster image out and into

Photoshop, see this or have your printer see this thread (if they do not
know how to extract the images)
<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bb518a5>

>
> Most likely your printer does know how but they have to ask if you

actually do have a supporting image.

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

To check separations, save as a AI file and open in Acrobat 6 pro and check separations there.

or

Print separations to your printer. File>Print>Output- Mode = Separations.

You will need to target a postscript device.

If you could also turn off auto-quotes, it would be appreciated.

[jessica_borner@adobeforums.com]

I have a similar issue I get the message "When spot colors are used with transparency changing them to process colors outside of Illustrator can generate unexpected results"

I tried opening it in Adobe 6 like suggested above to check separations but once I open the file what step is next to see the separations?

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

"When spot colors are used with transparency changing them to process
colors outside of Illustrator can generate unexpected results"




If you want to maintain spot color and you have NO plans on converting to process later down the line, this warning will NOT effect output if you still output as spot colors.

The warning does come into place if you place the spot color file in InDesign or Quark (or any other dtp application) the in the dtp application you convert the spot to process. This is when you can have "unexpected" results.

The procedure for converting spot to process is to go back into Illustrator, convert there and update links in the dtp application.

Here is an analogy:

If you walk barefoot (spot + transparency) outside of your house (Illustrator) you might step on something sharp and cut your feet. (generate unexpected results)

As to checking seps of a composite pdf in Acrobat, you will need the pro version and goto Advanced>Separation Preview.

If you do not have pro, you will need to print separations to Acrobat.