Importing big .eps files to photoshop takes forever

[rayray]

When I export an autocad drawing into photoshop by converting it first to an .eps file it takes forever. A 3 Mb autocad (.eps) drawing of 300 dpi, takes about 15 minutes to open in photoshop if I’m lucky and the computer doesn’t jam. Isn’t there a faster or easier way to import .eps files into photoshop? Would, making the file size smaller help?

[DennisHolland]

Hi Rayray,

 

making your files smaller is really the only way. Why not? You're dealing with vectorfiles here so it doesn't make a difference what size you have 'm, they are always the same quality. Unlike pixels (jpg, tif etc) vectorfiles are not influenced by sizes and/or resolution.

 

Do yourself and your computer a favor and resize 'm. Looking at the amount of mb's and loadingtime, I guess...you can reduce it all at least 80%.

 

Good luck,

 

Dennis

[xelan]

Hi Rayray,

 

making your files smaller is really the only way. Why not? You're dealing with vectorfiles here so it doesn't make a difference what size you have 'm, they are always the same quality. Unlike pixels (jpg, tif etc) vectorfiles are not influenced by sizes and/or resolution.

 

Do yourself and your computer a favor and resize 'm. Looking at the amount of mb's and loadingtime, I guess...you can reduce it all at least 80%.

 

Good luck,

 

Dennis

 

The question was I assume referring to rasterization of .eps files. So rasterization time also depend on the given resolution. I don't know any faster way, however 15 min is not something I'd worry about.

[VincentVega]

Hi Rayray,

 

making your files smaller is really the only way. Why not? You're dealing with vectorfiles here so it doesn't make a difference what size you have 'm, they are always the same quality. Unlike pixels (jpg, tif etc) vectorfiles are not influenced by sizes and/or resolution.

 

Do yourself and your computer a favor and resize 'm. Looking at the amount of mb's and loadingtime, I guess...you can reduce it all at least 80%.

 

Good luck,

 

Dennis

 

But when you open a vectorfile like EPS it will transform to a pixelbased form or am I wrong? Photoshop isn't a vectorprogram, so it looks to me that if you open a small vectorfile it will be blurry when you zoom in, or isn't it?

[Jason Matthews]

But when you open a vectorfile like EPS it will transform to a pixelbased form or am I wrong? Photoshop isn't a vectorprogram, so it looks to me that if you open a small vectorfile it will be blurry when you zoom in, or isn't it?

 

This is very true. When printed to an eps in CAD, this takes the vector format and turns it into a semi-raster format. It is semi-raster because you can tell phootshop to raise or lower the resolution. The higher the res the better the pixels, obviously. If comp is takeing forever to open the file, you need more RAM.

 

I have a 3.0 GHZ P4 and 2 GB RAM and it never takes too long to open an eps file in PS. And I have had 80 MB 3D CAD files.

 

Jason

[3dQ]

This is very true. When printed to an eps in CAD, this takes the vector format and turns it into a semi-raster format. It is semi-raster because you can tell phootshop to raise or lower the resolution. The higher the res the better the pixels, obviously. If comp is takeing forever to open the file, you need more RAM.

 

I have a 3.0 GHZ P4 and 2 GB RAM and it never takes too long to open an eps file in PS. And I have had 80 MB 3D CAD files.

 

Jason

 

right...so the solution to this is to upgrade....but if you cant, well, open your autocad drawing and press Print Screen on your keyboard to put your screen image on the clipboard.....then on photoshop, click file>new, when asked about the canvas size dont change the settings, just click ok, then simply paste the image on the clipboard to your canvas....if your using any Windows OS, it might just work....

[Bugga_Guy]

Why not make a PDF, and open that in photoshop instead?

[4CGFX]

Why not make a PDF, and open that in photoshop instead?

 

its originally an eps, i think you can turn it to PDF with ps, but since hes having trouble opening it to ps, can you suggest another way of doing it?

[Bugga_Guy]

Why go throught all that headache. bypass eps and go straight to PDF

 

Using Autocad, Plot the drawing to a PDF using acrobat distiller instead of a plotter or printer. Takes like 2 seconds to make. Then open in Photoshop. Just make sure if you want high quailty to export at a A0 size or something.

[gantsa]

I was about to import an EPS file(from acad) to photoshop. The plan is going to be finaly printed in 1m x 2m paper and contains lots of details.

I was wondering if i should rasterize it in 300 pix/inch when i will import it into photoshop for the first time. (or something like 150 would be enough?)

 

I run it into a PC with 64 bit AMD - 3 GB DDR3 ram

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Two things to consider:

 

How big is a "detail" in the final print?

How far away from will it be viewed?