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February 8, 2015
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i can't export/save my psb as a PDF

  • February 8, 2015
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i have made a banner in CS5.

it's larger than 2GB and is CMYK, 600dpi.

I can't save/export as a PDF, which the printer service specifies.

Any solutions!?

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    oh ok. so if i make it in inDesign - i would need to copy and paste the work i've done in Photoshop. would that work? i assume so... as long as the file is the same size


    It is best not to copy/paste photos into InDesign. And on NO ACCOUNT try to copy and paste the whole layout into InDesign, that would go from bad to worse. Instead, collect the source photos together and place each one. Redo the text (you can copy and paste the text as text, if you want). If you have done much layout, sorry, you need to redo it.

    If you like, post the full details from the printer. We may be able to better guide you, and point out more pitfalls.

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    station_two
    station_two
    Inspiring
    February 8, 2015

    Contact that "printer service".  I doubt they want a >2 GB file of any type.

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    Anonymous
    February 8, 2015

    that's what i thought as well, but how would i make it smaller than 2GB without losing quality. the printer guy asked for it at 600dpi as well! eek

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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    February 8, 2015

    What is the image content?  Is it fully raster or does it have vector content?  To make sense of saving as PDF using the High Quality Print Preset, you need to leave all layers intact with no copy merged layers at, or near, the top of the stack.  Make sure Layers is checked in the PDF dialog box. Un-check Preserve Photoshop editing capability  to keep file size down. It is likely to produce a _much_ smaller file in the saved PDF.

    There is a bit of a gotcha with this.  Just make sure that next time you save the PSB file it is set to save layers.  I have fallen foul of this twice before relising what was happening.  As Station said above, Hitting Ctrl?Cmd s every ten minutes is OK, but I absolutely increment the file name every 30 minutes or so.  I started doing this after seeing several people losing work when their system crashed part way through a save, which corrupted the file and they lost everything.

    I don't have CS5 installed to test, but I just tried it on a 3.5Gb PSB file.


    Just a thought.  I use Shadow Protect for backups.  This works by saving any changes to your protected drives on whatever time period you set.  Mine is set to 15 minutes.  Now I've never tried this, but you can mount the back as a drive choosing any of those save points, so it seems to me that mounting an earlier point might give you access to the PSB file as it stood at that moment in time.  I'll test that out when I get a minute.

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