Question about Saving or Exporting

[Trains1985]

A potential cliant of mine wants to have a raster-formatted logo of his retraced into a vector-formatted form - no big deal for me to achieve.

What I'm not so familiar about is how I go upon saving it with the ability to open it, without the need to have a copy of Illustrator. He wants to be able to have the logo to be any size, primarily on the web and on print, without having any pixelation issues.

Please tell me everything I need to know about fulfilling this request. Can it be done without having any negative space, when applied to third-party applications?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sand Patch

[Monika Gause]

With vector based file formats that can be achieved. With raster formats: not so much.

You might want to learn about SVG on the web.

[Mylenium]

Plain and simple: No. There simply is no universal format that will open without specific quirks ands issues across all applications even if you talk professional layout programs. A logo may look just fine in Adobe apps, but may go whacky in Corel. Therefore the proper thing to do would be to inquire what programs and workflows they actualyl intend to use and then tailer your output specifically to that and immediately have them check and verify they can use it as desired. Everything else is gonna blow up in your face, trust me. Been there, done that. You can provide a million alternatives and your uneducated client will instinctively pick the wrong one and then complain. A little communication beforehand can safe you a ton of trouble.

Mylenium

[Trains1985]

Thanks for the detailed response!

[chrisl41501719]

You should build the logo in vector (at about 10' wide imo). You will have to save several different versions for each kind of use they require. You cannot give anyone a logo that will work universally.

As for all the different file types you should send and what they're used for, it's google time!