prometheus

Quote: Originally Posted by EternylStudios Get a new designer....A designer being paid should send the file in "Every and any" format requested, including a layered hires original. the only issue would be if you approved a photoshop piece of art, and now you want vector version, well that would be an additional charge unless your happy with a crappy Live Trace, or have agreed to a vector file from the get go. anything less is incompetent, or inexperienced.

Some designers like to keep control of the original files, as it keeps the money earning potential on their side of the court. A lot printing business keep this practice as well.

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Quote: Originally Posted by EternylStudios anything less is incompetent, or inexperienced.

I don't think it's either in this case - just a designer not wanting to provide an inferior format to a client who doesn't know what they're asking for.

The incompetence on the part of the designer is just that they didn't explain themselves better to the customer so the customer didn't have any concerns and understood what was going on, instead of having to ask people on a forum for information their designer could have explained himself.

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Quote: Originally Posted by AddVenture only if you save it with layers, which increases the file size quite a bit. i never understood why you would save a tiff with layers when you can just keep the original ps file.

Quark 6 won't place native photoshop files, so you could save your file as a layered .tiff and still place it in Quark, then go back and edit layers as necessary. After cracking my wallet for Adobe CS2, and upgrading to CS3, I won't be getting Quark 7 or above. InDesign is a much better program, and I think Adobe finally found a way to break Quark's back with the Creative Suite concept.

Most customers of offset printing (and I'd wager screenprinting) have no idea what format they want stuff in. They'll say "save it in Adobe", or they'll want a copy they think they can edit and call back to say "I can't open it" and have no software with which to open anything.

It sounds to me like this designer assembled the final job in InDesign, and that's why he saved it as a .pdf.

 

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