The following information is provided to assist you in
converting your file to PDF or Postscript.
Click on the name of the program you use and refer to the information
pertaining to your application.
| Adobe Acrobat | Corel Draw | Macromedia Freehand |
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Quark Xpress |
| Adobe PageMaker | Adobe Photoshop |
If a program allows documents to be printed or saved as Portable Document Format (PDF) files, the most important things to be aware of are that images must NOT be downsampled and that ALL fonts should be embedded. The Upload site contains instructions and recommended settings for Adobe Acrobat Distiller® and a downloadable Distiller settings file. Click here for details
CorelDRAW® is a great program for creating upload documents. CorelDRAW® can export files and save them in various formats. To make things easier for everyone involved, files should be saved in EPS format. To export a file and save it as EPS, use the following steps.
Exporting as EPS files
Go to the File menu and choose Export. A "save"
screen will appear, and the "file type" to be
saved should be "Encapsulated PostScript." Give the
file a name and click on Export. Another window
will pop up with more options. On the "Export text as"
option, choose Curves. No other check boxes in this window should
be selected except "Convert color bitmaps to grayscale."
Note: All color bitmaps will be converted to grayscale. Make
sure you have color separated artwork correctly and have created
separate bitmap images for each color! Remember you can also
indicate color separations in the additional instructions area
of the upload order form. Now click on OK. That’s it!
If Macromedia FreeHand® is used to create the document Wes-Tex should have no problems handling the file. Like several other programs, FreeHand® allows quick and easy conversion of documents into Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). Just use the following steps and the order will be sped on its way.
Converting to Paths
When the document is complete and everything looks just the
way it should, the next step is to convert all text into artwork.
To do this, first select all copy and then go to the Text menu
at the top of the screen. Under
Text, click on Convert to Paths. To save as EPS, select
Save As in the File menu. In the window
that comes up, find the option box beside "Save as type."
Choose "Encapsulated Postscript (*.eps)." Now give
the file a name in the "file name" box and click on
Save. That’s all there is to it!
Adobe Illustrator® makes the process of preparing, sending,
and working with documents easy. With just a few simple steps,
a document can be prepared for submission to Wes-Tex.
The primary goal when using Illustrator is to convert the document
to outlines and save it as an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
file. Fortunately, Adobe Illustrator® makes this process
fairly simple. Note: Anyone converting Quark®
documents with Illustrator 8.0® and earlier versions: print
out the file and check for text movement! Usually, a portion
of text will move to the center of the page and will need to
be moved.
Converting to Outlines
When a document is finished, go to the top of the screen and
choose Select All from the Edit menu. Make sure that every part
of the document (graphics and type) is selected. Now go to the
Type
menu and select Create Outlines. This should convert everything
in the document to outlines (artwork) so that all text is treated
as a graphic rather than type. Before moving on, make sure this
is the case. If not, repeat the process.
Saving as Illustrator® EPS
To save an Illustrator® file, go to the File menu and click
on Save As. The "save" screen will appear requesting
a file name. In addition, a "save as type" option
will allow the file to be saved as "Illustrator EPS."
At the EPS
Format Options window, we recommend saving as version 8.0
of Illustrator. Once the file is named, save it. The document
has now been saved as an EPS file, and can be uploaded.
After completing your document in InDesign®, select all copy by choosing Select All (Ctrl-A) from the Edit menu. Then, choose Create Outlines (Ctrl Shift O) from the Type menu. Now you are ready to export the file as an EPS graphic. To do this, select Export from the File menu. Be sure to select EPS in the formats section of the Export dialog box and name your file!
PageMaker® Files Printed to Postscript
After finishing a document in PageMaker®, print it to
a postscript file. This allows the file to be imported into
other applications as if it were a graphic.
To do this, make sure there is a properly installed postscript
printer driver and that it can be accessed through PageMaker®.
In the paper
options be sure to turn on crop marks and page information.
Under the printing
options button, elect to send image data as normal and data
encoding in ASCII format and give the file a name. It is highly
recommended that the page be sized accordingly and that crop
marks are used to maintain proper margins.
Adobe Photoshop® is one of the best choices for creating
documents. Wes-Tex can easily handle files created in Photoshop®.
Here are a few simple steps to follow.
If all the artwork in the document is composed of bitmaps or
grayscale images, the file can be saved in Encapsulated PostScript
(EPS) format. Be sure to flatten layers before saving and that
resolution is 600 dpi at actual size. If there
is no other artwork but bitmaps or grayscale images, go to
the File menu and choose Save As. In the "Save" window
that comes up, find the option box beside "Save as."
Choose "Photoshop EPS." If EPS is not an option, then
the artwork is not bitmap or grayscale—RGB, for example—and
cannot be saved in EPS format. If that is the case, color
separate
the file and send two files, one for each color, in grayscale
or bitmap, in eps format. - See Guidelines for Scanning Images
for more information.
Quark Xpress® Files Saved as EPS
After completing a document in Quark XPress®, save the file as an EPS graphic, which allows the file to be imported into other applications.
Always process Quark® .eps files so that fonts will convert
to graphics and files will not require us to install necessary
fonts. To do this, use Illustrator, preferably version 8. If
you have version 8 or earlier, be sure to watch for text movement.
Usually a portion of text will move to the center of the page
and will have to be moved. If you have version 9 or later be
sure to save as version 8. Many times we receive later versions
that do not open due to postscript errors.
For more information on how to save in this format, refer to
the Adobe Illustrator® section.