Illustrator files in photoshop (quickie!)

[teetu]

Before I was using photoshop 8, and anytime i would open up an AI file it would give me options for rasterizing vector art.  I was mainly interested in sizing the vector art to my specs and saving it as a pdf or psd.

In photoshop 9 when i open up an AI file it gives me "import pdf" options, and doesn't include any size options.  I've been fooling with this for 2-3 hours now, and any alternative method i'm using is not giving me the image sharpness i want.  I can't just copy and paste like in frosty's tutorial (it's selecting parts).

I simply want to manipulate some vector art in photoshop, then save it as a pdf/bmp/psd without any quality loss due to resizing.

[PoDunkMoFo]

By definition you will loose quality when you convert from vector to raster.

Try this use open as in photoshop and make sure you select the correct file extension for illustrator.  It should give you a dialog box allowing you to select the resolution you wish to rasterize as.

[Crowquill]

I'm guessing from your process that you don't have Illustrator. If you're just trying to resize it, using Illustrator would definitely be the best solution for both quality and file size. Illustrator can directly save as a PDF.

Unfortunately I'm still using 7 at home, so I can't check how 9 does this.

[teetu]

When I did "open as" and selected generic eps that has the AI extension, it gives me a "could not complete  request because parser could not parse the file".  When I open as and select the photoshop eps extension it also gives the same error.

I do have illustrator, but I'm worse than that then I am with photoshop.  How can I resize it in illustrator so when it saves in PDF that it maintains the same measurements?

Right now I just saved in Illustrator as an illustrator eps, then opened it in photoshop and it gave me the right options.  Did I lose any quality by saving an AI file as an EPS in illustrator?

[PoDunkMoFo]

No ...... You lost quality when you brought it into photoshop and rasterized it.  There is essentially no difference between EPS and AI as far as quality goes.