corel to illy

[beermonster]

hey! yo! experts!!!!!!

a mate just asked the friendliest way of getting corel files into illy.

any suggestions? export - save as - whatever?

thanks folks :cheesy:

[jezza]

eps is probably the easiest route beer, out line fonts first if you can, that's what I used to do.

It's been a while though and more recent versions may have some export options instead of saving options

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Corel has a direct export to AI. Save as an AI file, the newest version it will allow. I am still on Corel 12, (POS) in regards to previous versions. I generally have very little problems, but keep a close eye out!

[beermonster]

thanks dcs - good man

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

If you have too many troubles, send me the file. I am no Corel expert, but I can get around okay in it. Transparent objects and raster created elements within Corel are the biggest problems I would look out for.

[beermonster]

cheers dude

if they get probs i'm sure they may ask again - and they said thanks too
 :grin:

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

cheers dude

if they get probs i'm sure they may ask again - and they said thanks too
 :grin:

I'll be here. Have a good night Beer! :wink:

[delooch]

while on the subject of corel (not to derail the topic)...

since ive been in prepress, ive noticed that almost every print shop ive ever been exposed to utilizes adobe apps, where "other" shops - screen printing, embroidery, etc. tend to utilize corel apps.  maybe that just holds true to my area/exposure... whats your experience? why the corel preference?

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

while on the subject of corel (not to derail the topic)...

since ive been in prepress, ive noticed that almost every print shop ive ever been exposed to utilizes adobe apps, where "other" shops - screen printing, embroidery, etc. tend to utilize corel apps.  maybe that just holds true to my area/exposure... whats your experience? why the corel preference?

It's cheap.

[delooch]

makes sense, though i was thinking there was some technical perk or benefit to those trades.. but cost seems to be about the only difference.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

makes sense, though i was thinking there was some technical perk or benefit to those trades.. but cost seems to be about the only difference.

In my experience, I noticed the same thing... smaller shops were using Corel, while larger ones used more mainstream apps. Corel is one of the only apps, and was one of the only apps, you could do just about anything. You are not limited to paste-board sizes, (you could make one a mile long if you were so inclined), and because it is all encompassing, and fairly inexpensive in terms of other apps... smaller shops just can't say no. Corel is a cluster, and very difficult to use, but it does work and does produce "quality" files. That does of course depend on the builder of the "said" file.

[gnubler]

eps is probably the easiest route beer, out line fonts first if you can, that's what I used to do.

It's been a while though and more recent versions may have some export options instead of saving options

Careful, though. I have very little experience with anything Corel, and once rec'd EPS files for a 3 color biz card job. I assumed they were Illy EPS files, not knowing any better. When I opened the files, various elements were kicked way off the artboard and the colors were totally wrong (and I believe showed up as CMYK instead of spot). Opening the same EPS files in Corel (I don't recall the version, this was 5 yrs ago) and everything was fine.

[born2print]

I haven't dealt with Corel in forever, and we used to have the artist export .ai as DCS says, but does anyone know if maybe PDF is the way to go now? I have no idea what control Corel has during PDF export...
For all I know, some of the PDFs we're receiving are from Corel (somehow I doubt it though :rolleyes:)

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

I haven't dealt with Corel in forever, and we used to have the artist export .ai as DCS says, but does anyone know if maybe PDF is the way to go now? I have no idea what control Corel has during PDF export...
For all I know, some of the PDFs we're receiving are from Corel (somehow I doubt it though :rolleyes:)

I trust Corel, if I have natives on it for export to PDF, which is now a viable export format. I just don't trust anyone else. Corel handles color very poorly, and in V12, I cannot even utilize color management because Corel won't launch if I do. I am getting V13, but I don't really see it being any better. It's all the raster and fountain steps embedded in the file.... makes for shitty PDFs. Corel to AI, and export from there. It takes longer, but the end result is much better. Of course that does depend on the size of the job and the elements involved.

[Joe]

I haven't dealt with Corel in forever, and we used to have the artist export .ai as DCS says, but does anyone know if maybe PDF is the way to go now? I have no idea what control Corel has during PDF export...
For all I know, some of the PDFs we're receiving are from Corel (somehow I doubt it though :rolleyes:)

I have at least 2 jobs that we receive Corel PDF's. They seem to work okay but they are larger in size than most other PDF's. Text is outlined in all of the ones we get but that's probably an option the customer could change. If customer using faux bold it creates several instances of the text just ever so slightly offset to give it the appearance of bold, sort of like PageMaker does. They seem to RIP okay though.