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Embedding in Illustrator


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goflo

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Hello. I am trying to embed as large a .tiff as is possible from Photoshop CS2 to Illustrator CS. I am starting out with .jpgs that are up to 8mb tops, working on them in Photoshop, creating a .tiff, then drag and drop embedding them into a CS Illustrator file. Sometimes it works and sometimes it is rejected. My question would be are there size limits on this procedure, and if so what are they. I need to embed and not place because my end product will be a .pdf. I've hit a wall and can't seem to get around it. Any help solving my dilemma would be greatly appreciated.
eMac 1.25, OS 10.4.11, 2gb ram. Thank you.
 
I've noticed that my question has been pretty much ignored. I guess that this problem that I am having is not of much interest to most people. So I may just be talking to myself. But I have made some progress on my own in answering the question. In order to accomplish what I am trying to do I have to use in Photoshop CS2: Image-Image Size, to reduce the size of the .tiff to an acceptable size that Illustrator CS2 will accept. I have noticed that the width size of 4000 pixels seem to be a breaking point. Anything above and the .tiff will be rejected. I don't have the Photoshop or Illustrator knowledge to say anything as a certainty but have noticed the trend that anything over that 4000 pixel size was rejected by Illustrator. And I recently had that verified on a file I was working on. Now, I am working on files in both Vertical formats in Illustrator with the corresponding Vertical .tiffs from Photoshop, and Horizontal .tiffs from Photoshop with Horizontal files in Illustrator. I recently was working on a Horizontal .tiff in Photoshop and the .tiff file had a width of about 7800 pixels. Now I knew that as the trend had gone that in order for the embedding to work I would have to reduce it to a width of 4000 pixels, which would cut the quality in half. Which I did not want to do. I'm like most people I want the highest possible quality as is possible. So what I did was to go to :Image-Rotate Canvas, and rotate the Horizontal .tiff at 7800 pixels to a Vertical .tiff by rotating it clockwise 90 degrees in Photoshop. With that now Vertical .tiff coming in at less than 4000 pixel width I could embed it in my Horizontal Illustrator file successfully then flip it back to a horizontal photo and keep the better quality.
For those concerned HIP HIP HURRAY!
P.S.: Never underestimate the power of persistence.
 
Hi goflo, your not talking with yourself! LOL!! I think you may have better luck posting this in the Adobe Illustrator Forum here on PSG.

Maybe a MOD will move the thread for you! Good luck!
 
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