Selling Deliverables

[Mish]

Hi All

I'm a newbie to AD.  I have created wall art I would like to sell.  Is it necessary that I flatten it before delivering it?  I do not really understand flattening anyway.  Is there anything else I should do to it before delivering it?

Any assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated. 

TIA

[Rick G]

You will probably want to export it in a format the end user will want to use. It exports flattened of course. If you are having it printed somewhere, ask them what formats they want

[Mish]

Yes I'll deliver it in a jpg and/or pdf format.  I didn't know that it exports out flattened.  Thank you for the feedback.

[kevinmcsherry]

Hi all. I have more or less the same issue. I create posters -usually around A1 physical size, they're a mixture of sometimes very complex vector layers (as I convert mono drawings as in the example attached) and raster layers for ageing and texture. They can be around 150 -200MB. I also create them in CMYK since I was told that the colour space has a wider gamut. I have converted to RGB for one large format printer and they've had no problem at all outputting posters.

Now -the problem: I sent these files as CMYK PDFs (reduced in physical size to A3) to a different printer, since that's what they wanted and my files caused all sorts of problems. Crashed the RIP (whatever that is) and generally took aeons to process. I had to cancel the task before I alienated this chap. Anyway, he said that the files weren't flattened -and that there were thousands of vector curves and the RIP couldn't handle them. So my question is -doesn't exporting to a PDF do the flattening anyway? Even after I exported to TIFF and then again to PDF, there were still problems. Can anyone tell me what best practice is for sending to a trade printer who wants CMYK files?

 

Looking forward to hearing from anyone with expertise!

 

Best regards,

Kevin