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bigginge

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I spent yesterday recreating a 'well done card' for a local school. This morning I put it into Quark, made an eps, distilled it to a pdf and printed it. I went back to Illustrator and took the Magenta down a touch, saved it, closed Illustrator and went to update in Quark, which said missing file. The file 'card.eps' is no longer in it's folder. It can't be found with finder or spotlight. Illustrator doesn't see it as a recent file. It's not in the trash. Any ideas where it's gone?
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If you still have your original Quark file, I'd just start again from there instead (and see if the vanishing of the eps-file is reproduceable). But it'd stump me, too, to have a file just missing like that...
 
Yes, I've opened the Quark eps in Illustrator, so I should be OK. If the PDF is passed, there's no problem - other than what happened?
 
I'm not sure if I get what you mean... From what I get from your _first_ post, you designed the whole thing in Quark, saved the Quark file (an assumption) and then exported to EPS. From there you distilled a PDF, opened the EPS in Illustrator to adjust some colour and then the EPS was gone. This would leave you with the original Quark file as well as the PDF which isn't exactly the colour you want. I'd change the colour in Quark and re-export as EPS and redo the distilling to PDF...
 
Sorry, I should have explained better. The original file was created in Illustrator and saved as 'card.eps. This I placed in Quark, as I find a Quark eps distilled gives a better result and can be opened by anyone. In the past when I've saved files straight to pdf they haven't been universally readable. Anyway, it's the original Illustrator file that's gone walkabout. Odd thing is when Quark said it couldn't find it I opened the folder with it in and saw the file for a split second before it disappeared. Very strange. As I say I've got a workaround, but I worry about if it happens again with no way out.
 
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