Create your own Calendar with Illustrator & InDesign – Vector Premium Tutorial
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Create your own Calendar with Illustrator & InDesign – Vector Premium Tutorial

on Jun 3rd 2010 with 10 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop CS4
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3 hours
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A calendar is a great way to make something appealing and practical from your creations. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a print ready 12 month calendar using grunge text, the Linked Text tool, master pages and layers.

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  • Andreas Galster

    Good tutorial except for the recommendation of exporting EPS files from Illustrator. Especially for InDesign this is not recommended. EPS is an obsolete file format, InDesign can’t even handle them that well. It’s much better simply exporting native Ilustrator files or PDF files for InDesign.

    Thumbs up for this tutorial :)!

    • http://www.spgrafiks.com Simona
      Author

      Thanks for the tip. I haven’t had a problem yet with EPS files in InDesign. I will look into this.

      • Andreas Galster

        Hello Simona,
        unfortunately I have no english reference to get you started why EPS is obsolete, but I’m sure you’ll find something with Google.

        The simpliest explanation is probably that PostScript’s last update was in (I think) 2002, whereas PDF is in constant development. Therefore PDF is of course much more advanced. Considering the new Adobe PDF Print Engine, which will be used in all the new print machines, only uses native PDF files instead of PostScript, should be another hint why it’s obsolete.

        One of the biggest backdrops of EPS or in general working with PostScript is the lack of support for transparency, which means, that artwork will get flattened and eventually converted to pixels while the process, which is totally unneccessary with AI or PDF files (PDF 1.4 at least required) – leading to better quality or at least an insurance, that there will be no problems with wrong flattening settings and vectors being converted to pixels.

        I think in your tutorial such a flattening wouldn’t be the case (didn’t go through it yet, just scanned the tutorial) but I’m still recommending AI files – the advantage over EPS is just too big.

        I hope you got the idea why EPS is “bad”. EPS is still suitable for old workflows, but modern workflows don’t need it – in fact don’t even want it.

  • Andreas Galster

    Oh I forgot a small fact. AI files are based on the PDF technology.
    Have a nice weekend ;o).

    Kind regards
    Andreas Galster

    • http://www.spgrafiks.com Simona
      Author

      Thanks Andreas for the detailed explanation. I know the lack of transparency is a big problem. I will for sure implement this into my workflow. Thanks again. You said that you have no English reference to why it’s obsolete, could you send me anyways information you have, I do speak French and German :)

  • Terry

    Thank you so much.
    Your tutorials are always the best and so usefull for my work.
    :-) Have a good day
    Terry

  • karim

    do i see wrong placed numbers ellipses on the promo screenshot?? LoL!

    have a look at numbers 25, 18 etc.

    premium quality!!! rofl

    • http://newarts.at Drazen Mokic

      Yes seems like they`re not positioned well but people tend to fail.

    • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat

      If you take a look at the tut you will find that there is more to it than how to align text.

  • Kris

    @ Karim – Who cares? Seriously. If your beyond this and are in fact an “advanced” user of AI then provide some quality feedback. Maybe on using the Align features of AI. Don’t mock the process because you found one small “error” in a mock-up screen shot. Give me a break.

    @ Andreas – Awesome. I love that you kindly pointed out that EPS files are essentially obsolete and then back that up with a reasonable and logical explanation. I have since stopped using this export file type when submitting artwork for print (but still create an EPS just in case I have to send it to the client). There are plenty of times when I haven’t the faintest idea where the client will take something to print so you never know! :-)