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Adobe Illustrator Users- Need Help (Resizing Of Images Question)

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Jeff Gundy, Apr 30, 2005.

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  1. Jeff Gundy

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    I have been given (9) high resolution Acrobat Reader .pdf documents that are pretty high resolution and I need to use these documents for a website deal we are doing.

    I know about the save for web option on Adobe Illustrator, and for the purposes of the website I need a thumbnail (100X100) and also a larger (300X300).

    Long store short, I have been playing around with Adobe and all of these files and I am not getting the best results and I know I am missing one step (or two). So now I have images saved in those two sizes I need, but the documents become distorted like a square instead of being closer to a normal 8X11 page outline. My only goal is to get as close as possible to the original documents and have it resaved in the images sizes the website program requires.

    Can somebody please instruct me how to do that little resizing technique on Adobe where you can save & open the image size you need it to be, and then take the original perfect looking document and just paste in front on the resized image???

    Let me know if you have any questions or if I need to clarify anything.

    Thanks in advance for any advice.
     
  2. ron413

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    edit...

    Sorry, I have no clue. Did you try to do a google search on that topic because google is great for answering questions that you may not be able to figure out with programs like that?
     
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  3. Jeff Gundy

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    I tried many google searches. Still need some advice on that resizing technique where you first open up the exact size document you want the finished product to be, then you open the normal perfect appearing document and somehow paste in front this 2nd document.

    Anybody graphics folks, good google searchers, etc. in Clutchfans.com land able to hook a brother up?

    Ok, I know that this was a free advice thread at first, but now I am taking it to the next level with a major reward: I will give you my Cuttino Mobley water bottle (ship it to you for free) from a few years back if the advice leads to me able to resave the documents successfully!!!
     
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    Any luck getting this complete JG???
     
  5. Jeff Gundy

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    Nope. No luck figuring it out so far...

    Instead of the Cuttino water bottle I will ship the winner (free freight) the Steve Francis bobble head. (Winner can decide actually).
     
  6. MR. MEOWGI

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    Are you changing the document size in Illustrator before you save to web?

    Should the document size match your save to web size?

    What are you opening pdf files and saving to web in Illustrator, instead of Photoshop?
     
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  7. Jeff Gundy

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    Q #1)Are you changing the document size in Illustrator before you save to web?


    A) Yes, I was playing around with saving the dimension on the "save for web option" to 100 X 100 and then I was trying to do the paste in front technique with the regular sized document.

    Just for reference, the document size of most of the .pdf's is 500KB. The documents open up and it is a standard 8X11 size brochure/letter you view. For the sole purposes of putting images onto a website, we have to save these documents in thumbnail (100 X 100) and larger (300 X 300) size after you click on the thumbail link.
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    Q #2) Should the document size match your save to web size? Whatever works, I have only one goal and that is not to get distorted square images of this normal letter size image. I need to fit it in the dimensions required by the online store program, so that is why we usually just aim for those dimensions with normal items. This is my first experience with high res letter sized images.
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    Q #3) What are you opening pdf files and saving to web in Illustrator, instead of Photoshop?

    Yes, I am opening the .pdf's into Illustrator. I do not have photoshop at work, Adobe Illustrator CS is what we use and that is what I have been practicing with so far. Our website program prefers the RGB format over CMYK (in case that matters).


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    Mr. Meowgi- Let me know if you have any other questions or need anything else. I want you to take home the prize if we are close, just lay down the law as far as the instructions on what I need to do and I will try and execute your instructions.

    Thanks in advance.
     
  8. MR. MEOWGI

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    I would try changing your doc size / page size to a square like 11"x11" so that everything still fits. And when you save to web, it stays a square....

    Can you make a new 11"x11" doc, then file>place the pdf file (make sure it is horizontally centered), then save to web?
     
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  9. pasox2

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    try irfanview . It's free.


    http://www.irfanview.com/


    It's really good at re-sizing images. Just click your specs and done.
     

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