[andi*pandi]

Hi, hoping someone else has had this and fixed it:

A bunch of illustrators making COMPLEX medical files in illustrator 10... sometimes with photoshop files brought in, sometimes not. If they use transparency (handy when labelling art) the file will balloon up hugely in size when saved as eps.

Example: 40MB illustrator file with 30MB photoshop file embedded with transparency used has turned into 1GIG eps file.... agggh. The RIP is not happy, nor is LAN with usage of disk space...

Anybody else? Solutions? We've got some workarounds (save raster to photoshop eps, etc) but would like to preserve the illustrator for better type resolution at small point sizes.

[Corys]

Sounds like you need to check your raster settings. Could be you are rasterizing your bitmap data to something like 1200 DPI, when 300DPI would be sufficent.
I think you find the options for the setting under the filter menu.

[andi*pandi]

um, no...

the file that is megabig, is a NON-RASTERIZED EPS file.

[Corys]

Whenever you save a EPS out of AI10, it flattens it, but it also keeps the unflattened data so you can re-open it and make changes..no way around it, otherwise how would you be able to place that EPS in Quark and RIP the job?
this is at least my understanding of how AI10 saves files.