Hey peeps. I would be grateful if someone can help me.

I usually work at the office but lately have been working from home and sending my designs as JPEGs through hotmail.

My work want better quality CADs and as I am working at the office next week, I need my work files as Illustrator files to rework on.

Well, I dont have a printer or a CD drive to copy my work from my hard drive.

Can I save them as Tiff files and send them through, to rework on?

When I save for web I have 3 options: JPEG/GIF/PNG-8/PNG-24

Maybe I can save it as EPS? I am not sure..they are quite large, and sometimes hotmail cannot deal with such large files.

Anyone know the best way I can send these so I can work on them again at the office?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Less time on the puter Nicole. Lol.

The problem here Red is that throug email you are not going to be able to send full resolution JPGS or Tiffs because the files are huge. You can try sending them as lower resolution files, but there is not quarantee that you will be able to rework on them, save them at a higher resolution, and be of top quality. My suggestion is trying JPGs they tend to be smaller files then tiffs and you might be able to get it to email at high resolution.

Or here is another option invest in a external cd drive or a zip drive this will make transfering large size files easier. You can find either of these types of drives at a decent price. I paid less then 50 bucks for both of mine. Hope this helps hun

Okay. Tiffs are just way too big. Does your office have Illustrator? If so, why not just send them in Illustrator (vector) format? Assuming that's what you are working on...

If they are purely for printing, you could find out what size and resolution your office need, and send them at those sizes in postscript format.

Ideally though, invest in a CD writer or a removable hard drive or something. You could get yourself a little Pocky drive that plugs into the USB port of your PC at work and at home, dead easy.

You have to save them as EPS files if you want to rework them.
[This message was edited Sat Sep 13 11:09:20 PDT 2003 by dbol]

If you are able to save in a vector based format, then it is easier to make adjustments if needed.
Comes in really handy in case of last-minute changes.

I would pick that over any compressed format like JPEG...

Save as native Illustrator files, .ai extension. Then zip compress them or Stuff them, .sit

Then email them to yourself, should be small files.

Expand them, open them up in Illustrator at the other location. All your work will still be in the original workable vectors.

That's it.

Tiffs, jpegs, etc. are images, flattened, not workable.

You can save the Illustrator file as a PDF and that also contains the basic workable files, but stick with .ai's.

MostBeautifulGrlNTheWorld said:

Thanks, but work has left me with this to do this weekend, so I dont have time to buy a cd drive right now. I do need to rework them so I shall try out what you have said.

Thank you everyone, at least I have different options to try out, and if they dont work (lets hope they do ) then I will just have to redraw everything again..

Have you tried putting your designs into your toaster?

2the9s said:

Damn, the files are too big to send through hotmail

I believe Adobe Illustrator can open CAD files. Although they may have to increase the line stroke once they open it, in order to see it more clearly.

Converting it to a high resolution JPG, GIF, PNG, or any raster format is only going to make a larger file.

If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, you could also try printing it to a PDF.

Lastly, if no matter what you do the file size is too large to email, consider splitting it into several small files with a program like WinRar.
[This message was edited Sun Sep 14 8:07:29 PDT 2003 by Tom]

Tom said:

Thank you Tom, I think I have sorted it out now..