Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual page 336

328 CHAPTER 14
Saving and Exporting Images
To print the file using a non-PostScript printer,
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save in TIFF format and export to Adobe
PageMaker 5.0 or higher.
Note: If you import an EPS or DCS file with a TIFF
preview into applications such as Adobe Illustrator,
the clipping path transparency will not display
properly. This display affects the on-screen preview
only; it does not affect the printing behavior of the
clipping path on a PostScript printer.
Printing clipping paths
Sometimes an imagesetter has difficulty inter-
preting clipping paths, or a printer finds the
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 a 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 159).
By increasing the tolerance setting used to create
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the path (see the following procedure).
To simplify a clipping path with the tolerance setting:
Select the path in the Paths palette, and click the
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Make Selection button at the bottom of the palette
to convert the path to a selection.
2 Click the Trash button at the bottom of the
palette to delete the original path.
3 Choose Make Work Path from the Paths palette
menu, and increase the tolerance setting (4 to 6
pixels is a good starting point).
4 Name and save the work path. Then choose
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
feature 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 module:
1 In Adobe Photoshop, draw a path or convert an
existing selection into a path; then save the path.
(See "Drawing freehand paths" on page 151,
"Drawing with the pen tool" on page 153, and
"Converting between paths and selection borders"
on page 163.)
Choose File > Export
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>
3 Choose a location for the exported path. In
Mac OS, for Write, choose the path you want to
export.
4 Click Save.
Paths to Illustrator.