Any graphic/print designers out there that can help me out.

Being mainly a web guy i create 99% of the graphics i use in fireworks for ease and speed and i dont know how to use Illustrator very well. I have a selection of logos created for the new briskoda stickers in vector PNG format. However the printers want them in EPS vector format. I have tried and failed miserably to convert them.

Can anyone help?

could you convert with the GIMP?

Any use? Clickety click?

just worked for me png >> eps

Edited 12 April, 201016 yr by Jonny5ive

Linux has loads of *2eps tools.

http://www.henlich.de/media/png2eps/png2eps

Alex, Illustrator supports export to EPS.

If you're stuck, feel free to send over the graphic and I'll reply with it in EPS format

Yeah i knew that, the problem is... when you open the original PNG vector file in illustrator it looses the majority of its colour properties and all of the live filters so looks awful. And it does not import it the file as a vector either. :S

PNG files are bitmap images. If the printers want an EPS for it's vector properties your only option would be to re-make them in illustrator or such. EPS files can contain bitmapped images, but all you're doing is changing the container, not the information, so it sounds like they want a vector image.

Fireworks saves interim PNGs with vector data so you can edit it losslessly until you use the Export command and produce a valid (optimised) PNG formatted file. But the PNG with the layer and vector information isn't really a PNG and only Fireworks can read it properly.

You could try exporting from fireworks to an AI file and then opening that in Illustrator rather than the PNG? But I don't think Fireworks' export to AI is very good from memory? If they want 100% vector files you may find yourself needing to start again in Illustrator I'm afraid.