[sean_r]

I'm using illustrator, I'm trying no place/import a jpg (not that large, 3.4MB) and illustrator refuses to do it. It complains; "Insufficient memory was available to complete the operation." WTF?!

I've tried closing all other programs down, restarting, everything I can think of. What's going on??

[finbarr]

its your ram...and 3.4 mb is not that big???

I may be wrong but I think you can change something in your prefernces that can help. I'll try and find out for sure

[sean_r]

What can I do finbarr?

[finbarr]

Originally Posted by Some witty name

What can I do finbarr?

see previous post/edit

btw: why are you wrorking with such a huge jpeg? is it because of the actual size in dimensions?

[sean_r]

I can't see how the file is that large actually, it an a4 size image, 300 res. I've had this kind of trouble importing into illustrator before

[finbarr]

Originally Posted by Some witty name

I can't see how the file is that large actually, it an a4 size image, 300 res. I've had this kind of trouble importing into illustrator before

why dont you save a version at 72 or even save for web... you cant possibly need it to be that big? Once youve done the illustration you can scale it back up again if need be

I dont have illustrator on this machine I'm working on and I cant get hold of any mates to tell me about changing the preferences

[sean_r]

Thanks finbarr, I halfed the scale, and scaled it back up again. Once it was smaller it imported ok. Thanks for the help. Don't know how I managed to make an a4 image 3.8 MB tho.

cheers

[finbarr]

Originally Posted by Some witty name

Thanks finbarr, I halfed the scale, and scaled it back up again. Once it was smaller it imported ok. Thanks for the help. Don't know how I managed to make an a4 image 3.8 MB tho.

cheers

no probs... didnt really help that much tho

[pgo]

Originally Posted by finbarr

its your ram...and 3.4 mb is not that big???

You should see the stuff we're getting in to work. One of my colleagues got an 85MB image. Via email. Nearly brought down the server.

[finbarr]

Originally Posted by pgo

You should see the stuff we're getting in to work. One of my colleagues got an 85MB image. Via email. Nearly brought down the server.

quality... what kind of fuckwit sends a file that ig by email

I know adobe said that CS2 works perfectly well on 256ram but I read a report somewhere that stated if you dont have double that you can forget it... dont know if anyone can confirm that?