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marcd87288619
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April 12, 2017
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Problem with "Save for the Web" Illustrator CC 2017

  • April 12, 2017
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Dear all,

I have a problem when I save an illustration for the web with Illustrator CC 2017. I see the illustration so small that I can not control anything in order to compress it properly.

Does someone has an answer ?

Thank you so much in advance !

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Eternal Warrior
Eternal Warrior
Inspiring
April 12, 2017

Frankly there are two simple things to be aware of:

  1. The original image appears to be tiny. Since you are saving for web (essentially rasterizing your vector) everything will be converted into Pixels. Either you need to up the size of the Image OR:
  2. Change the Save For Web view to something where the graphic fits the display box..

The easiest way to do this is:

171 x 90 px is not very large - even for web images. What is the end goal for this image?

Best wishes,

EW

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marcd87288619Author
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April 12, 2017

Thank you EW,

When I use your option it give me that :

What I need to  have in the "Save for the web" screen, it is the exact replica of what I have at 100% in Illustrator. If not, I can not compress the image if I do not see it at 100%. It is not WYSIWYG at all. Illustrator CS5 and CS6 was doing this operation perfecly before, that is why I do not understand what is going on now with Illustrator CC 2017 !

Marc

Eternal Warrior
Eternal Warrior
Inspiring
April 12, 2017

Hi Marc (marcd87288619,

When you view things in the Save for Web function of Illustrator CC 2017 it is best compared to doing a very similar action in Photoshop.

I cannot tell you what it was like for CS5 or CS6 as I honestly have forgotten how they worked or if I used them.

But essentially to boil it down into its nuts and bolts - The save for web function, Photoshop and most Adobe programmes (now) follow the rule that 1 pixel is equal to 1 point. In other words it renders everything to a 1:1 scale. So your 171 px width is displayed proportionally at 171 computer screen pixels.

This should explain to you why when you do a save for web (and everything is rastered into pixels) the "fit to screen" zoom level is so high.

The best solution to your problem would be to scale both the artboard and Logo to around 1000 x 1000 Pixels and then IF NEEDED for a particular web page/image then scale down using the commands in the Save for Web menu.

To be really brutally honest - with the advent of 4K Resolution and onward... You need to worry more about pixel size than percentage size - (WYSIWYG only really applies these days to pixel size).

Also as your file is so small anyway - I'm not quite sure why you need to worry about any compression.. I can't imagine any user/browser struggling to load that image.

So again I would ask what the end goal is?

Best wishes,

EW

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