unable to paste .jpg into Illustrator

Andy AL

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Whenever I try to paste an image (.jpg from WWW for example ) into Adobe Illustrator, it tells me that "quicktime and a TIFF (uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture" .

I am using a brand new iMac with OS Tiger and Adobe Illustrator from the CS Premium Suite. Anyone know how to remedy this? Need to fix this ASAP.

Thanks.
 
Hopefully you are trying to design a website and that's why you're placing a jpg file? Sounds like your jpg file is a CMYK, corrupt, or in a format illustrator can't read. If you're trying to create a file for print then do not place the jpg file; make it a 300dpi CMYK TIF.

Open your jpg and make sure it's a rgb image. Set your document for RGB color in File/Document Color Mode/RGB.

Let me know if that helps.
 
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