Is there any way to flatten an image?

if there isnt a rasterize function, that would be really wierd

 

Under the bitmap menu, you can rasterize it.

 

You could rasterize it prior to saving as a pdf. Or you could save a step and export the file as a raster image for proofing.

 

I get that sometimes to when creating a PDF, if you convert all text to outlines it takes care of that probelm.

 

I forgot that Flexi 10 has a function which might work for you.

File>Send Email>JPG (or PDF)

 

If you want to make it quick (we all try to...) blow it full screen and hit "screenshot" button. Open new file (blank), paste it in, save in whatever please you (pdf or jpg) and send it that way. You are sure your customer will get it full screen and will see the same exact image you had on your screen.

I do that because I discovered that sometimes, when exporting a logo (for example) there could be some missing items like outline, word of main copy converted to white. It only takes like 10sec. and you're focussing on next job...

 

Try this guy..... he can probably help you.

 

That's what I would do.

 

Does the same thing happen if you export an .eps? I don't like to send proofs as .pdf created directly from Flexi because they can open them in Illustrator and have the vectors. So I would open a .pdf (or .eps in this case) in Preview (on a Mac) and take a screenshot (COMMAND-SHIFT-4 gives you crosshairs to draw a box). It looks much better than just taking a screenshot of the sign in Flexi.

 

Just export as a .jpg. I just tried the send email .jpg and it works well I might be using that from now on. Just make sure in the control panel that your preferred e-mail is set as the default.

 

I find the screenshot method mentioned above to be the quickest, and it works no matter what document/image/software you're using

 

I have had this problem many times when export as a jpg. I found that if you separate the outlines so that they are just another path it should work fine. It can be frustrating though. I've never noticed it happening when I rasterize the image in flexi (but i rarely do that), just when I export it as jpg.