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Title: Does anyone have this image (image is now printed thanks)
Post by: painterinfo on January 02, 2010, 08:24:17 am

Hi,

I am looking for a high res copy of this image (or similar), can anyone help?


Cheers

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: redfivexw on January 02, 2010, 08:37:27 am

http://vectorlib2.free.fr/Mame/ (http://vectorlib2.free.fr/Mame/)

it is there

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: Kevin Mullins on January 02, 2010, 07:48:07 pm

I have Adobe Illustrator 8.0 ...... but it seems I can never open any of these .ai files from any of these vector file sites.

Now I am definitely not AI swavvy so bear with me, but can anyone suggest why this may be ?

I was having trouble with a couple files earlier and then I saw this post pointing to the same site I got files from earlier and figured I'd try this particular .ai file that was being asked for..... same results.

But I can open them all with Adobe Reader just fine.  ???

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: painterinfo on January 03, 2010, 12:47:57 am

Thanks, I have searched for these for ages. I am not familiar with the AI file format but it is handy acrobat opens them, I am planing on getting a couple of side art stickers made up.

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: painterinfo on January 04, 2010, 05:53:05 am

The guy I gave it to could not import it into Corel properly (that was what he was going to print it from to get the scale) He converted it with Illustrator and it ended up missing layers.

He said I should try get it resaved as an earlier version so he can try and import again. I recon if I can get it saved as a massive JPG or PNG then he can print it as photo quality rather than vector.

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: redfivexw on January 04, 2010, 04:33:42 pm

I open those files in Adobe Photoshop 7 with no problem at all, they are vector and you can pick the size you want them to be.  I dont think they open at full size when you use acrobat. 

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: painterinfo on January 05, 2010, 05:27:53 am

You are right, thanks, you just select the pixles per inch and open with photoshop, then you can save as JPG and give to printer dude.

With Acrobat, it opens as a vector because you can zoom, zoom into it forever. (at least 6400% with reader 7)

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: tbombaci on January 06, 2010, 01:05:47 am

I saved this in AI 8 format. Just unzip and go.

-tom

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image
Post by: Kevin Mullins on January 06, 2010, 06:07:26 pm

Yup, that one opened up great for me with AI 8 ....
Just sucks every time I go to a vector file site nothing will open for me with AI 8.
I downloaded one of the newer AI trial programs (CS3 or CS4) and everything opens fine with it from the sites.
Guess I'll need to upgrade in order to keep up. Was planning on trying to learn some of this, but kinda hard if files aren't very well backward compatible and such.

Title: Re: Does anyone have this image (image is now printed thanks)
Post by: painterinfo on January 09, 2010, 05:22:42 am

The Sticker guy in Maroochydore could not even import it properly when I put it in Photoshop CS format. Fortunatly I also had it in a very large JPG format version too.

Here is the the final image I got printed.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=90051.0;attach=139793;image)

The bit where I have writen by Matthew Painter refers to my cabinet, not the image.

Thanks to everyone for helping me. Here is a link to my build thread,  Arcade10 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=98894.0) I got two stickers printed on 30cm round vinyl and will shortly post a picture of the art stuck to the side of my cab.

Cheers