To avoid difficulties when receiving and opening your work, it is very important that you follow the steps below when closing the file.

WORKS PERFORMED ON MACINTOSH

Illustrator 9.0 (or previous version)

Free Hand 9.0 (or previous version)

For these programs, you must save texts, gradient illustrations and others with EPS extensions or extensions native to the program itself.
It is important to convert the texts into curves or to provide a complete folder of the fonts used in the project.

All the images created or scanned in this program must be saved in the extensions EPS or TIFF with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi for the final format.

This program does not have compatible extensions. The file must always be saved as native. The rule of fonts is applied for this program.

COREL DRAW 11 (or previous versions)

The only program that we use for receiving files on the PC platform is Corel Draw. The simplicity of the program makes the sending of files very viable, though some details should be taken into account in their closing. Generation of smoke, lens-type effects and others are not advisable in this program.
Images imported to Corel Draw must be made with appropriate resolution and converted into *CMYK, the colors used in our processes.
In case the image comes in *RGB, they cannot be opened using Corel Draw; they must go through an image program and then converted into *CMYK, what might provide a non-expected result of the work.

* CMYK– Any printing process works with four colors (C - cyan, M - Magenta, Y - I Yellow, P–black). Starting from combinations of these colors, we are able to reproduce nearly all the other colors that we see.
* RGB –The colors that we see on monitors follow the RGB scale (Red, Green, Blue). The colors that we see in chromes are in continuous tone. It is important to know that in both cases, these colors cannot be reproduced in graphic processes; therefore, they must be converted into CMYK.
In this case, the file will be returned, so that the customer carries out the conversion in the program where it had been generated.

• The files can be sent by CD, zip drive, diskette, or e-mail, and must be done in CMYK or Pantone, always followed by a test for reference of colors and job format. In case of a special cut, it is worth it to remember that the drawing of the special knife should be part of the files sent.
  
• The fonts should always follow the files. If they are typed in Photoshop, they will come with the drawing resolution, which is not advisable, because they will lose definition in possible enlargements. The most advisable is to type them in illustration programs (Illustrator, Corel Draw, and Freehand), and convert them into curves, once there are not desktop publishing jobs.