Illustrator File Pixelated

Someone emailed me an illustrator file to work with; however, when I download and open in my illustrator, the image becomes pixelated. How do I fix this?

It's possible that you have pixel preview turned on. Go to View and then uncheck Pixel Preview if it's checked.

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Imported Illustrator files pixelated, even after continuous rasterization.

Hey there,
I'm trying to import files(Text converted to objects) from illustrator to after effects, and they're showing up pixelated, even after I've selected continuous rasterization. Google is no help, sadly, and any help I could get regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

PAR of your comp?
Your comp window should look like this:
The PAR Correction turned on is a likely culprit.
The other option you can take a look at is in the File Interpolation rules. There you can set antialiasing to Best for EPS options. You'll find it under the more options in the Footage Interpolation popup.
The other thing that may give you problems is OPEN GL Rendering. Try turning OPEN GL off in the Comp window's Fast Previews options or in the Preferences.
This is how the Comp Window should look at 100%:

CS6 InDesign - Default display is high-quality. Four placed images are Illustrator files. Three images look the way they should - high-quality. One image looks pixelated. Why?

InDesign CS6 - Default display is high-quality. All four placed images are Illustrator files. Three images look the way they should - high-quality. One image looks pixelated. Why?

Not sure if this will help, but what is your inDesign file's "Transparency Blend Space" set to? It's under the edit menu.
Also, when you are placing your images, are you selecting "Show Import Options" and making any selections there?

Low resolution Illustrator file needs to be changed to high resolution?

I created a logo for a client in Illustrator that they were going to use on large format banners. The file contained one Photoshop image that I imported into my Illustrator file and changed into a vector object. I also outlined all type. The only other items on the logo were colors done in CMYK. The client now says the overall image was done in 'low resolution' and needs to be in 'high resolution' but I'm confused about what part of the design she would be referring to (as, as far as I know) there are no pixels that would pertain to resolution - (unless the CMYK color builds translate into a problem?).
As she is a new designer for a client (my friend) I'd like to get some feedback before I just ask her what she's talking about and embarrasing her (or me).
Any thoughts? Thanks.

I'll note... after reviewing my file, the only other thing I noticed was under Document Setup, the Transparency preset was at 'Medium' instead of 'High' resolution, but here again, I thought this was a non-factor because as far as I know there is no 'transparency' (no jpegs, effects, etc.)... just the vector items that I noted.

How to make PDF file size smaller from an Illustrator file without changing the quality or size (length and width) of the file?

Is there a way to make a 30x42 size (40 GB) Illustrator file as a PDF but make the file smaller in size (able to email to clients) with out compromising the quality of the file or the size of the file?

If you are working in RGB you can embed a colour profile. Embed ICC Profiles is one of the Acrobat save options. It will increase files size dramatically.
When you save your pdf you can choose the compression method for placed images. Default is ZIP which is really no compression at all for pixel images. Instead you should opt for JPG compression (of varying degree according to how sensitive the images are to compression).
You should also examine the other Acrobat save options. To minimize file size you should not have any of the options checked (Preserve Illustrator Editing Capability, Embed page Thumbnails etc. etc.).
40 gigabytes for a file like the one you show is ridiculous. Did you maybe embed the placed images? If so, don’t. Keep them linked unless you really need to embed them.

Is it possible to scale Illustrator files inside After Effects and retain the vector quality?

I imported an Illustrator file into my After Effects project and scaled the ai file to 200%, but noticed that is pixelated. Is there a way to keep the ai file vector based inside After Effects.
Note: I attempted to use the "Create Shapes from Vector Layer" and the paths all show up, but the fill and stroke colors disappear??
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am using CS6 Creative Cloud on a Windows 8 with 16 gig of ram
Thanks,
Paul

Dave is right. See this:
FAQ: Why are my vector graphics (e.g., from Illustrator) jagged or soft?

Importing Illustrator File to Photoshop

Sorry, this question may be to vague to answer, but I have a problem with a file I created in Illustrator. When "placing" the file it gets imported extremely pixelated and corrupt. I know it's not the software, because other files I "place" into Photoshop from Illustrator look great -- files that were developed by other professionals.
I admit to being a bit of a novice in Illustrator and I'm thinking it's the way I set up the file, but I can't find any differences in the two files I have placed -- one being the file developed by another designer and the one I developed.
Sorry for this vague question, but does it bring any solutions to mind?
Thanks, Jim

Hi,
You're not suppose to "place" the ai file in Photoshop.
Instead you can save your logo in illustrator as a new PSD or PDF file, even you can open your illustrator file in photoshop directly.
Wish this helps.

FR: Constant rasterization of titles and imported Illustrator files?

The option to constantly rasterize Illustrator files in AE is great (titles always constantly rasterize in AE). Would it be possible to have this option in Premiere?
For example, I create a title. In the ECW, I animate the size of the title from 100% to 200%, but it gets blurry. It would be nice if the text could remain crisp, just like it does in AE. Ditto for resized Illustrator files.
Does anyone have any insight into why Premiere doesn't or perhaps even can't have this? If it's possible, it sure would be nice to have, along with the ability to scale assets to any size, beyond the current 600% limit, which AE doesn't have of course.
Thanks!

Here's my official FR for others to use as reference or copy/paste and send to Adobe:
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature: Constant Rasterization of Titles and Imported Illustrator/Vector files
How would you like the feature to work?
Titles and imported Illustrator/vector files should remain crisp when sized above 100% the same way they do in After Effects when constant rasterization is turned on.
Why is this feature important to you?
Crisp titles and graphics look good. Pixelated soft mushiness does not. Allowing text and vector artwork to look good at any scale only makes sense, and would save users from having to resort to AE/Illustrator to solve this shortcoming in Premiere (or put up with soft graphics when AE/Illustrator aren't available).

Illustrator-photoshop pixel scale integration

If I export to a jpg file an Illustrator created object that measures via the ruler 5 pixels (appx.) length and then open that file in Photoshop, the object is 50 pixels (appx.) in length. Then if I try to compensate by reducing the scale of the Photoshop object by 1/10, the object fuzzes out and loses its features. Anyone know how to sustain the scale of an Illustrator created object opened in Photoshop? I'm not interested in the kluge solution of beginning with an Illustrator object 50 pixels in length.

Scott has answered your question. I'll give this all-too-frequent confusion another shot:
First, think Photoshop:
All Photoshop does is arrange a bunch of color values in rows and columns. Each "cell" in this array is a color value; nothing more.
A pixel is NOT a measure. It's just a color value. It has no intrinsic size. A pixel can be scaled to any measure you want it to be. That's what you are doing when you resize (not resample) an image in Photoshop; you are telling Photoshop to scale each pixel in the image to a new size, in the form of so-many-pixels-per-actual-unit-of-measure (most commonly, PPI; Pixels Per Inch).
Do you see that?
Pixels per Inch.
Pixels per Inch.
"Pixel" is just a color square. "Inch" is an actual measure. A pixel has no measure whatsoever until you scale it to an actual unit of measure. Without the "per whatever" the pixels in your image have no size.
When it all comes down, a Photoshop file contains one raster image. All the pixels in that image are scaled to the same measure. You can't grab a subset of the pixels and scale them to a different measure. Hold on...yes, I know Photoshop's interface lets you pretend to do that, but trust me, you can't. When you select a bunch of pixels and "scale" them, as soon as you commit the change, the actual pixels in the image are just recolored.
Because all the pixels in a Photoshop document are scaled the same, when the ruler is set to "Pixels," the ruler can be thought of as counting pixels.
Now, think Illustrator:
Illustrator individually arranges, scales, rotates, and distorts any number of entirely separate objects. Those individual objects can be text objects, path objects, or raster objects. Again, they can be individually scaled. So you can place a raster image in Illustrator and scale it so that its pixels measure 1/100th of an inch (100 PPI). You can place that same raster image again in the same Illustrator file and scale it so that its pixels measure 1/300th of an inch (300 PPI). Both instances of that image still have the same number of pixels. But they will not "measure" the same, even if you set Illustrator's rulers to "Pixels."
Because each raster image in an Illustrator file can be independently scaled to any size, when the ruler is set to "Pixels," the ruler cannot legitimately be thought of as counting pixels.
The rulers in Illustrator always represent real-world, physical measure for whatever eventual output method/environment the file is intended. Because "pixel" is not an actual measure, the use of "Pixels" as a supposed "unit of measure" is completely bogus. It's just an ill-conceived "convenience" for those who want the rulers to represent how many pixels the file will be rasterized to, if and when the whole thing is exported as a single raster image.
All too often--especially in Illustrator--supposed "convenience" features become time-wasting "confusion" features. The assumption of this particular "convenience" is that the user already understands all of the above. As is painfully evidenced by the frequency of recurrance of this very same topic in this forum, that assumption is as bogus as pretending that "pixel" is a unit of measure.
In other words, the people who are the target of this "intuitive convenience" (newcomers to vector programs dragging along some comfort-level in raster programs) are the very ones most likely to be confused by it, and the net result is anything but intuitive.
Since "pixel" is absolutely not a unit of measure, and since Illustrator's rulers always represent an actual measure, what is the actual measure being represented when one sets Illustrator's rulers to "Pixels"? The actual unit of measure is the typographer's point. A [modern] point measures 1/72 of an inch. When you set Illustrator's rulers to "Pixels," you are really setting them to Points.
I don't know which program actually started this particular interface idiocy, but Illustrator is far from the only vector drawing program that commits it. They should all be burned at the stake.
JET

Preventing the editing of illustrator files when given to a client

Hi all,
Wondering if someone can help.
Our problem is, one of our clients has asked for the actual illustrator file with the artwork in it. We want to somehow prevent them from editing the artwork and just be able to read & print the artwork from illustrator.
Is there any way of doing this, maybe password protecting layers or something? were on CS3.
Thank you for your time.
Jason

In my opinion one should NEVER send original artwork to clients. PDFs are o.k. and so are good quality screen shots, but if you send editable artwork to a client you are asking for trouble. After all, you are the designer and if the client wants to make alterations he should ask you to make them. More often than not clients operate on Windows, so pdfs and RGB pixel files (jpg, png, tiff etc.) are all he will really need.

Sizing PSDS for After Effects / Preparing Illustrator files for After Effects

3 questions
For the longest time I have been told when importing PSDs to
After effects, in order to keep circles circles (proper ratios) I had
to make a 720 540 PSD file and then crunch it down to 720 486. Then import the file to a D1 NTSC 720 486 after effects comp and everything works fine.And it does and always has
I have now been told otherwise. People claim they view in DV NTSC view
in Photoshop at 720 486 and then just import to a 720 486 DV1 After
Effects comp and everything is fine.
That view mode in Photoshop is for viewing purposes only though so this
confuses me. Sure you can sit there and stretch your picture to look
right in that mode but that doesn't make sense. Going 540 to 486 is
quicker.
But one weird thing I noticed is if you save your PSD with the NTSC
view mode turned on it will automatically import to After Effects with
DV NTSC comp settings. Otherwise it will import into a Square Pixels
comp.
So to simplify my questions are the following.
1. Is there a way to avoid creating a 720 540 PSD and then crunching
down to 486? And somehow keep circles circles and photographs not
stretched.
2. Why does the DV viewing mode in Photoshop effect the importing into
After Effects if it's just for preview purposes?
That said I like that viewing mode in Photoshop because when I do my
720 540 to 720 486 crunch I can see that everything will look fine.
If anyone can help it would be much appreciated. I've been fine doing what I'm doing but for the last couple years I have been told there's a quicker way and haven't found anyone who knows.
And my final question #3 is
How do you import an illustrattor file into After Effectcs with
layers? I know how to bring sa photoshop file in with layers but everytime I import an illustrator file in , it comes in flat as one layer.
Thanks very much to those who can help.
J.

>Is there a way to avoid creating a 720 540 PSD and then crunching
>down to 486? And somehow keep circles circles and photographs not
>stretched.
Not really and then "crunching down" is very much a matter of point of view. The real question is: Can you accept the variations e.g. in antialiasing introduced by creating your work with non-square pixels in Photoshop. Apparently doing so will affect horizontal sampling more than vertical and as there is a difference in how AE and PS deal with these matters, the result would be different. It also extends to the matter of how practical it would be to work with such files if you need to move them to applications that don't provide PAR correction...
>Why does the DV viewing mode in Photoshop effect the importing into
>After Effects if it's just for preview purposes?
It doesn't. The people told you only half the facts. Photoshop's PAR correction is just for viewing purposes, that's true, but it does not mean that PS itself would be unable to deal with non-square pixels. Whenever you create a files based on such presets, PS will correctly embed that information for saving, hence programs like AE that are able to extract that information, will use it to correctly interpret items.
>How do you import an illustrattor file into After Effectcs with
>layers?
You can't. In the strict sense Illustrator has no layers, only objects and groups and since they can be infinitely combined in the funniest ways, it's a hell of a thing to read them right. Maybe in CS5 after all these years... (or even later).
Mylenium

Content of illustrator file is different when opening in and old cs version.

Hi all!
I have a very awful and urgent problem in my job right now, i design some advertisings that goes regularly from month to month, so some advertisings are just like the last month used but with some data changed.
My problem:
I have an illustrator file (.ai) saved and created in CS3 with pdf compability, outlines, and files linked and included on the same cd,
but when opening the same .ai file in another machine but with CS2 (the client's PC).. it shows a very old version of the file with ALL linked files embebbed (and those are different that are on the cd!!)., in the CS3 file i saved and recorded on cd i replaced all things of course and re-save it. I don't know what is wrong, but when i open it in another machine (i.e. a Mac) it shows the correct version of advertising. But not with the client's machine...
In my illustrator file, there is only text outlines and 2 psd. Each PSD have only 1 layer, 'cause they were flattened (thet are actually letters scanned).
So basically: My .ai file, created in CS3 in a Mac, seems totally different and embebbed when opening in CS2 in a PC.
I hope someone can help me with this urgent matter Thanks a lot everyone!!

In regards to the illustrator file link not matching, there is nothing wrong with the .ai file., your problem is with the filenames on the linked images. Your linked images have the SAME EXACT FILENAME AS THE OLD ones connected to the clients machine. You need to break the link to the old bad files and re-establish them to your good files.
Use links palete Flyout menu >> link information to find the location of the images. Change the name of an enclosing folder, or some other method to break the link to old images. Relink to new images, by placing them next to the .ai file in the same folder, and open the .ai file.

How do I edit an illustrator file saved as a jpeg?

I have an assignment I'm working on, in my color theory class. I saved the file for web, but I didn't save the illustrator file as a copy to edit. Is there a way i can edit the original image, and reopen the layers?

So you exported the file from the Save for Web dialog and then closed the AI file without saving? If that was the workflow, then there is nothing you can do except recreate the file.

Packaging an InDesign document with Placed Illustrator Files which contain PLACED GRAPHICS!

I've got an InDesign document 215 pages long. Each page contains a placed Illustrator document... and each Illustrator document contains a placed TIFF.
When I package the InDesign Document the Illustrator files are gathered into the new location, but InDesign does not gather the TIFFs. I need to get this material to the book designer, but relinking 215 pages is going to be a very risky and time consuming process--one that will have to be done OVER and OVER again as the project moves from one location to another. Can anyone recommend a solution? Why doesn't InDesign look for nested files?
Does anybody understand what I'm talking about?
--Jay

The reason behind link (.psd in layers) means in the future it can be edited.
If the person receiving to package needs to edit the layers of a PSD placed in an Illustrator file, then yes you would have to manually include the layered PSDs. But if it's just a matter of ensuring full res and color managed output downstream then saving as PDF does that and preserves the links to layered files locally. So if I save as PDF trash a link and reopen the PDF in Illustrator it will look for the link:
If you save as .ai with the links embedded, the users downstream would be able to unembed and edit a flattened version of the placed art.

How do I get a transparent background in my Illustrator file?

I'm relatively new to Illustrator, (I'm working in CS4) and created a corporate logo for one of my clients. When I place the logo into Photoshop or InDesign, the logo is in a white box. How can I make the background transparent in the original Illustrator file?

Hey!
Thanks, but I wrote
19. dyemotion,
Nov 18, 2013 9:43 AM in reply to TREX
Thanks,
but I need the file in png or jpg.
I have to upload this image and there is no other data type possible. :/
that I need png or jpg.
And of course. By every change of the saving options, I tried how it looks when its uploaded.
But every time it doesn't look like it should be.
That is the reason why I wrote my questions in this forum.

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