I am working on a MacBook Pro. I have created a logo in Freehand . It consists
simply of type over a black box with a silver no-fill rectangle as a border. I
converted my fonts to paths, grouped all of the pieces, and I tried to export
the logo (selected objects only) to Generic EPS. It seemed as though it was
working. There was no error message. However when I looked in the Finder, the
file was not there. I tried again, and was surprised that I didn't even get a
"replace this file?" error message. It really looked like it processed the
export, there's just no exported file.

When that didn't work, I directed the program to export, selected objects
only, to Mac EPS, Photoshop3 EPS, etc. Nothing worked. The file just doesn't
export.

I work almost exclusively on the web. I export to JPEG files all day long
without a problem. I've even done BMPs without issue. However, this logo is
for a print project so I need to have a vector image.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Do you think I need to reinstall? I
believe that I have the most up-to-date version of Freehand.

Thanks in advance for your help.

>[...] I converted my fonts to paths, grouped all of the pieces, and I tried
> to export the logo (selected objects only) to Generic EPS. It seemed as
> though it was working. There was no error message. However when I looked in
> the Finder, the file was not there.

What is the physical size of the artwork? Is it larger than letter size? FH
writes a raster preview when exporting to EPS, and sometimes chokes on very
large artwork. It's a memory management issue.

FH's EPS Exporter relies heavily on your default Postscript printer when
writing an EPS. If you don't have a Postscript printer or Postscript
interpreter such as Acrobat Pro installed, I suggest you set up a virtual
Postscript formatting printer, select it as your default printer, and try
again.

See this Apple technote for instructions.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34886

Judy Arndt

>[...] I converted my fonts to paths, grouped all of the pieces, and I tried
> to export the logo (selected objects only) to Generic EPS. It seemed as
> though it was working. There was no error message. However when I looked in
> the Finder, the file was not there.

What is the physical size of the artwork? Is it larger than letter size? FH
writes a raster preview when exporting to EPS, and sometimes chokes on very
large artwork. It's a memory management issue.

FH's EPS Exporter relies heavily on your default Postscript printer when
writing an EPS. If you don't have a Postscript printer or Postscript
interpreter such as Acrobat Pro installed, I suggest you set up a virtual
Postscript formatting printer, select it as your default printer, and try
again.

See this Apple technote for instructions.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34886

Judy Arndt

>[...] I converted my fonts to paths, grouped all of the pieces, and I tried
> to export the logo (selected objects only) to Generic EPS. It seemed as
> though it was working. There was no error message. However when I looked in
> the Finder, the file was not there.

What is the physical size of the artwork? Is it larger than letter size? FH
writes a raster preview when exporting to EPS, and sometimes chokes on very
large artwork. It's a memory management issue.

FH's EPS Exporter relies heavily on your default Postscript printer when
writing an EPS. If you don't have a Postscript printer or Postscript
interpreter such as Acrobat Pro installed, I suggest you set up a virtual
Postscript formatting printer, select it as your default printer, and try
again.

See this Apple technote for instructions.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34886

Judy Arndt

Thank you for the advice.

The file is not large (it's a business card) in this version, but I don't have
ANY printers installed on the laptop. I usually just put anything I need to
print on a USB stick and take it to my desktop (PC). I will try setting up a
virtual printer.

After I submitted this request for info, I kept messing with the file because
I really need to get it exported. I accidentally discovered that if I do not
check the box for "selected objects only" the file exports without a problem.
My only concern is that I cannot see these files to "proof" them. I tried
opening one that was a generic EPS in PhotoShop and it was worthless. There
was nothing but a grey dot in the center of an empty page. Hmm.

Let me know if that gives you any other thoughts.

I am currently downloading the free trial of Adobe Illustrator to see if I
have better results.

Thanks so much for your suggestion. I will give the printer thing a try.

Thank you for the advice.

The file is not large (it's a business card) in this version, but I don't have
ANY printers installed on the laptop. I usually just put anything I need to
print on a USB stick and take it to my desktop (PC). I will try setting up a
virtual printer.

After I submitted this request for info, I kept messing with the file because
I really need to get it exported. I accidentally discovered that if I do not
check the box for "selected objects only" the file exports without a problem.
My only concern is that I cannot see these files to "proof" them. I tried
opening one that was a generic EPS in PhotoShop and it was worthless. There
was nothing but a grey dot in the center of an empty page. Hmm.

Let me know if that gives you any other thoughts.

I am currently downloading the free trial of Adobe Illustrator to see if I
have better results.

Thanks so much for your suggestion. I will give the printer thing a try.

Thank you for the advice.

The file is not large (it's a business card) in this version, but I don't have
ANY printers installed on the laptop. I usually just put anything I need to
print on a USB stick and take it to my desktop (PC). I will try setting up a
virtual printer.

After I submitted this request for info, I kept messing with the file because
I really need to get it exported. I accidentally discovered that if I do not
check the box for "selected objects only" the file exports without a problem.
My only concern is that I cannot see these files to "proof" them. I tried
opening one that was a generic EPS in PhotoShop and it was worthless. There
was nothing but a grey dot in the center of an empty page. Hmm.

Let me know if that gives you any other thoughts.

I am currently downloading the free trial of Adobe Illustrator to see if I
have better results.

Thanks so much for your suggestion. I will give the printer thing a try.