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  Photoshop 7 Duotone files import into Illustrator 9

  Posted by Gawpertron on April 16, 2007 at 12:38 pm

  Hi
  I’ve created a duotone image in photoshop 7 and i can save it as a psd or eps to preserve the pantone colors i have picked.

  however when i try to import/place the file into an Illustrator 9 document it comes up with this error message:

  “The file “c:/yada yada.psd” is in a format which can not be placed”

  And i can’t even import an eps file.

  Has anyone ever had a similar problem? and does anyone know of a way around this. It is important to keep the pantone information.

  Is there a way in illustrator 9 to place a grayscale psd or similar file and then assign the pantone colours within illustrator 9 to that image object.

  cheers
  Adam

  Mike Gondek replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Gondek

  April 16, 2007 at 2:00 pm

  Ilustrator CS2 is only able to place the .eps, since it cannot place a .psd when it is duotone.

  Look into updating your software, Illustrator 9 was not one of my least favorite as it crashed often or had printing problems with transparency.

  You should be able to place a grayscale and colroize it. Test to make sure it seperates accurately, as it has been a while since I colorized a tif.

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