Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual page 380

CHAPTER 13
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Saving and Exporting Images
6 Save the file:
To print the file using a PostScript printer, save in
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Photoshop EPS, DCS, or PDF format.
To print the file using a non-PostScript printer,
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save in TIFF format and export to Adobe InDesign
or to Adobe PageMaker 5.0 or later.
Note: If you import an EPS or DCS file with a TIFF
preview into Adobe Illustrator, the image clipping
path transparency may not display properly. This
affects the on-screen preview only; it does not affect
the printing behavior of the image clipping path on a
PostScript printer.
Printing image clipping paths
Sometimes an imagesetter has difficulty inter-
preting image clipping paths, or a printer finds the
image clipping path too complex to print,
resulting in a Limitcheck error or a general
PostScript error. Sometimes you can print a
complex path on a low-resolution printer without
difficulty but run into problems when printing the
same path on a high-resolution printer. This is
because the lower-resolution printer simplifies the
path, using fewer line segments to describe curves
than does the high-resolution printer.
You can simplify an image clipping path in the
following ways:
By manually reducing the number of anchor
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points on the path. (See "Adding, deleting, and
converting anchor points" on page 177.)
By increasing the tolerance setting used to create
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the path. (See the following procedure.)
To simplify an image clipping path with the tolerance
setting:
Select the path in the Paths palette, and click the
1
Make Selection button (
palette to convert the path to a selection.
Click the Trash button ( ) at the bottom of the
2
palette to delete the original path.
Choose Make Work Path from the Paths
3
palette menu, and increase the tolerance setting
(4 to 6 pixels is a good starting value).
Name and save the work path. Then choose
4
Clipping Path from the Paths palette menu.
Exporting paths to Adobe Illustrator
The Paths to Illustrator command lets you export
Photoshop paths as Adobe Illustrator files. This
makes it easier to work with combined Photoshop
and Illustrator artwork or to use Photoshop
features on Illustrator artwork. For example, you
may want to export a pen tool path and stroke it to
use as a trap with a Photoshop clipping path you
are printing in Illustrator. You can also use this
feature to align Illustrator text or objects with
Photoshop paths.
To use the Paths to Illustrator command:
Draw and save a path or convert an existing
1
selection into a path.
Choose File > Export > Paths to Illustrator.
2
Choose a location for the exported path, and
3
enter a filename.
4 Click Save.
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