Any Illy CS5 gurus out there? 911 emergency.

Try saving it as a pdf with the artboard exactly sized to 58 x 49.5.

Or scale it up in Illy instead.

 

Why don't you:

a) Scale it up to full size in Illustrator prior to converting to EPS

b) Scale it to the desired size of 58" x 49.5" in Versaworks instead of just settling for 100% scale (Sorry, I just noticed that you said you tried this already)

c) Have you looked to insure that there are no stroke widths or perimeter borders that have accounted for the additional size?

 

Why are you scaling an image (raster art) in Illustrator?

 

So try 989.315%

 

Open in photoshop - Image menu - Image size and save. Pretty simple.

Or you can try to scale it to 50% of the final size in Illy and then enlarge it 200% in versaworks. How big(MB) is the file at fullsize?

 

It sounds almost like a versaworks issue. I work in 10 to 1 all the time without issue. Does your PDF export options include bleed? This could be throwing you off. I do all of my complex tiling in illustrator. Just in case this helps, here is my standard procedure.

Set up multiple art boards at 1/10t scale to represent your tiles.

You can set them to overlap if you want but I usually set a custom bleed to handle overlap.

Export the files as PDF or tiff. IF you use tiffs, be sure to set your resolution at 10 times what what you need.

Open the PDFs or Tiffs and check the size. If you use tiffs, you can set the proper resolution and they should fall to the correct size.

 

Probably something to do with a clipping mask that versaworks is counting as size, but prints blank.

 

Could also be the margin set in versaworks. Mine is defaulted at 0.1 which actually adds 0.2 (almost a 1/4") to the total print area in VW's.

 

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In short, without complicating things - if you print with "do not scale" selected in your AI print dialog, it will output 1:1. Don't worry about the size you see in VW. If there is bleed, and you've included it, it gets added, as well as that EPS margin thing.

The most important thing is, that you don't accidentally input a smaller artboard than required, otherwise it will chop off your graphics. I find the easiest way, is to set the artboard to the size of the graphic (there are several shortcuts to do this, if you don't know them let me know), and I always add a 1mm bleed. Contour cut lines lying on the edge of the artboard can get chopped sometimes.

Then in the AI print dialog, when you select "Custom" from page size, it will automatically load the size of the artboard.

 

A situation that should be corrected! Hit up Adobe.tv and Lynda.com. Always be learning!

 

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