Is there an easy way to manage extensive amounts of .eps & .ai files (Adobe Illustrator) into a .pdf catalog format?

September 19, 2007 4:37 AM

Is there an easy way to manage extensive amounts of .eps & .ai files (Adobe Illustrator) into a .pdf catalog format? I often buy vector pack cds that come with vast amounts of eps/ai files but there is almost always a single .pdf file that has a catalog of all the files in one for easy browsing. Is there a tool that does this automatically?
posted by cheero to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Best answer: For the eps files, you could make a contact sheet in Photoshop and save that as a PDF (file > automate > contact sheet). Since you can't open ai files in Photoshop, you'd have to convert those first.
posted by desjardins at 5:48 AM on September 19, 2007

You would have to go thru the trouble of placing the .ai files into photoshop (I think), but once done, you could make a PDF from there. I think it's File->Automate->PDF Presentation. To place you just do File->Place (at least on CS2). It comes in as a vector object or some such.

IANAPP ( I Am Not A Photoshop Professional). Just an amateur.
posted by Medieval Maven at 6:27 AM on September 19, 2007