How to convert a large Adobe Illustrator file to a .tif?

[Justan]

Has anyone converted a large Adobe Illustrator file to a tif? A friend tried this using CS5, and the Adobe Illustrator reported that it ran out of memory, with 12 GB installed on a x64 machine.

[JohnTodd]

There're a number of shareware programs which create a dummy Windows printer device, where you print your document from the application and it lets you save (in your case, a .tif) as an image file.

[Justan]

Thanks,

since i posted this i found a few cantadates. Here they are for anyone who comes across a similar problem

A good candidate (free) which uses Ghostscript

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-convert-PDF--PS--EPS-and-AI-files-to-a-Tiff-file-using-a-quick-simple-File-conversion-Program

another reference to using ghostscript

http://www.rhinocerus.net/forum/lang-postscript/132921-how-convert-ai-file-into-tif.html

programs to buy that do file conversions this

http://www.reasoft.com/rea-ai-change.shtml

http://www.peernet.com/tiff/tiff-image-printer-how-to/convert-to-tiff.html?source=adwords-TIF-NAB&gclid=CIXW2sfhzqgCFQI3gwodXkkviQ

[Schewe]

Has anyone converted a large Adobe Illustrator file to a tif? A friend tried this using CS5, and the Adobe Illustrator reported that it ran out of memory, with 12 GB installed on a x64 machine.

If he has CS5, is there a reason he was trying to rasterize the Illustrator file with Illustrator rather than Photoshop? Photoshop can rip an ai file easy enough...

[Justan]

Thanks!