Hey cool cats, what's up? Been on vacation for a bit, now back at the nitty gritty.. Gotta a question for you fellow Adobe heads... Element Skateboards, and Nixon got me printing huge ads on window perf and installing them as full window graphics in sports shops. For some reason their design people are making the files massive!! The last Element ad I ripped was over a gig!!!! (it really don't need to be!) Anyway, Nixon gave me their ad to print for a Fredericton shop, again the file is giant and will take some time to download. I noticed it was an Adobe InDesign file. I didn't install InDesign here because we mostly deal with wide format prints and not multi-page laser printing. So I'm wondering, will Photoshop open a single page InDesign file? I'd like to know before I download such a big file.
Thanks guys.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
no..PSD does not open indd. It says.. "not the right kind of" ... blah blah
Posted by Bob Noyes (Member # 8317) on :
InDesign can export to a PDF. Then open the PDF in Photoshop.
Not sure why an InDesgn file would be over a gig. Sounds like a poor workflow.
Posted by Mr Curtis Dalton (Member # 7547) on :
yeah, this ones not over a gig, the eps files were, this ones over 500 mgs.. still big... anyway, thanks guys... I'm too lazy to install InDesign right now.. I'll ask for psd or pdf.
Posted by Dana Stanley (Member # 6786) on :
Can't you open In Design in Illustrator?
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Get them to export the IDD file to PDF, and open in it in Illy or Corel.
Indesign has many good filehandling features while you're creating a job. Any text added in Indesign will be vectors, but it probably has heaps of unnecessarily-high resolution photos embedded in the file. If you can get it on a cd or a dvd, and open and dissect the pdf, then you can reoptimise the photos to somehting more sensible, and leave the text where it is, and print from that. Or resave it as a pdf.
It's remarkable how similar Indes. is to Illy as far as strokes, solid colours, menus etc go. It is less like Photoshop, more like Illy.
There is a learning curve to using it though- be warned!
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
P.S. possibly if they gave it to you as a PSD file, if they possibly knew how, it would be three times as big...
at least you have an idea the photos should be decent, not fuzzy!
Posted by Mr Curtis Dalton (Member # 7547) on :
Oh yeah, I never thought about trying it in Illy.. These ads are usually just a large photo with little text, maybe just a logo. So i thought it would be fine in Photoshop... I used Quark back in the day, I know InDesign is the same type of thing, I'll try in Illy as soon as I get a minute.. I'll let you know what happens.. thanks Ian.
Posted by Mr Curtis Dalton (Member # 7547) on :
Okay..... didn't work! Hahaha, I think it's a CS3 file.. i use CS2. I talked to the company and they are going to send me a high rez PDF with bleed and crop marks... I said, "THANK YOU!" cuz that's how it should be done.
Thanks for the help guys, and Stephen, thanks for the phone call. Peace out brothers.
