Illustrator 2025 and saving to CS3 "Not enough memory to open the illustration" error
Odd ball question here.
First a little background. I build scale models as a hobby and use and old ALPS MD-1000 to create custom water slide decalse. ALPS are ideal because they use wax instead of ink to generate the images and not susptible to water damage. Plus they can print white! ALPS printers are vinatge and requier an old Windows XP machine.
For years my workflow has been to create the art on my iMac with CC then save it back to CS3 to print using my old PC. I never had an issue until earlier this week, when I updated to 2025 . I now received the error, "Not enough memory to open the illustration" on the PC.
I have tried:
• Restarting both machines - Recieve memory error
• Uninstalling Illustrator 2025 - Recieve memory error
• Reistalling Illustrator 2024 - Recieve memory error
•Saving back to CS2 - Recieve memory error
•Trashing preferences on both machines - Recieve memory error
• Saving as an .eps - Opens flat
• Saving as a .pdf - Opens flat
An older file opens normally, so I am starting to think the error involves creating the art in Illustrator 2025 or perhaps some other backend 2025 update. As a workaround, I can recreate the art on the old PC but that sucks.
I welcome any suggestions.
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