[Richard Clark]

G4/450
1GB RAM
20 GB HD

Freehand 9.0.1
Photoshop 6.0.1

One of our designers decided to put textures in a Freehand file for the first time. She changed it to an EPS. When trying to open the eps in Photoshop it would show the box that it was trying to rasterize. After about 45 - 60 an out of memory box would come up saying that it was out of memory.

Checking the memory allocation of Photoshop it was min 20, max 42. I upped the memory min 50, max 100. Same problem. Upped it min 100, max 250. Restarted machine. Same problem. Had the designer create a new EPS and the problem still happened.

She went back into the file in Freehand. Took out the textures, created an eps, opened in Photoshop without any problem.

Is there an icompatiblity with textures in eps files?

Any tips or tricks would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Corys]

Have you tried to do the texture by itself then merge the 2 files in PS?

I believe if you are getting out of memory errors with PS, it's an indication that your scratch disks are getting full. you sure you have enough disk space on your startup drive?

Might also want to try to export a .psd file directly from freehand and see how that works.