Oleguer Vilella wrote:
> Well, I've had a lot of problems with a printing shop, because they had a 
> plotter, but the girl that knew how to use it wasn't there (she was outside 
> for holidays).
> So Slime's problem is very usual, at least for me. The formats is another 
> problem too. I don't why, but some shops want a .tiff, others a .PSD...

Oh yes, and some others only take _vector_ graphic formats for things like 
t-shirts (a "professional" one, not those copy shops that do t-shirts as 
well).  Just last week I had a friend call me and ask what that was supposed 
to mean.  She was apparently "helped" by a clueless employee.  She only had 
a PDF document I had created for her long before with Illustrator - as 
Illustrator is able to keep all additional information even in a PDF that it 
needs, while at the same time only requiring Acrobat Reader to display and 
make simple printouts, that is a good format for handing to friends and 
still being usable by any qualified user of Illustrator.

Of course she was told that PDFs could _not_ be used.  Only after supplying 
her with instructions that Illustrator could very well open it and get a 
valid "vector graphic" from it, it worked out.  She still told me that the 
clueless employee was all the time wondering why someone would use PDF for 
interchange.  Obviously they don't careto think where their customers would 
get the software they use from.  After all, not everybody qualifies for a 
student or other discounted license for Illustrator ;-)

Of course, there is nothing keeping anybody from embedding an appropriately 
sized bitmap image in a vector graphic format.  Nor would that print shop 
have any problem with a plain bitmap image of reasonable resolution and 
size.  But a clueless employee would.  I suppose there just isn't enough 
money in this to make it worthwhile to hire qualified staff any more :-(

	Thorsten

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