Uh Oh, It's Starting to Happen Here Too...

[WildWestDesigns]

I'm sure at one time or another we have all received an "art file" embedded into a Word/PowerPoint file.

This weekend I received one embedded in a Pages document. I hope this isn't going to a be a trend. At least with Office files it's easier for me to extract what I need. It was a booger with that Pages file.

 

[Border]

Just had one of those a week ago, myself. Really messed up the original file.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

In the end, I had to take Alicia's computer, print it, scan it back in and then digitize the pattern. I tried various was to export it, but something always came out wrong with it. Boy was that a nightmare. At least with the Office files, my digitizing software can read those, but no dice with Pages.

 

[jasonx]

I just zoom in and printscreen my monitor and use that.

 

[tsgstl]

I just zoom in and printscreen my monitor and use that.

+1
I do this more and more, it's just not worth the trial and error time wasted

 

[rjssigns]

Had a sign shop send me a file to do some printing because their printer wasn't big enough. They sent a PowerPoint. WTF! I told them what it would cost for me to extract then size everything since sizing in their words had to be exact. Phone went click...

Sad part is they really do have a shop. I'm guessing not for long.

 

[omgsideburns]

Pages has PDF export built in.. just tell them to export it.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Pages has PDF export built in.. just tell them to export it.

That's the first thing that I did when I used Alicia's laptop. The fonts and layout did not carry over. Nor did having it save a copy as a Word file (although I had somewhat expected issues with that as I remember during my short lived time with using Macs that some layout don't transfer between the two, why I tried the pdf export first).

 

[omgsideburns]

I meant having the customer export it as a PDF for you. If they didn't provide it in a good format they get to try again. I don't play games like that with files.. unless I screwed up and don't want anyone to know.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I meant having the customer export it as a PDF for you. If they didn't provide it in a good format they get to try again. I don't play games like that with files.. unless I screwed up and don't want anyone to know.

If the print and scan back in hadn't worked, I probably would have. I have a little bit more wiggle room when it comes to source files for digitizing then some other production methods without having to put a lot more work back into it.