would you like an eps with that?

In case you missed it over in the comments, Alistair has come up with some cracking advice on how to get hold of logos in EPS format when you're dealing with clients who don't know their epss from their jpegs. Here's the tip:

"I've lost count of the number of times I've struggled in vain to get the right format of logo from a client. Particularly if it's a third party's logo. And as with Richard, when they do come across, it's nearly always as a lo-res web based .jpg. But, I've found that you can nearly always find what you're looking for by doing a Google search for .pdf files, either with the company's name in, or by confining your search to their site. Both searches are easy to do via Google's Advanced Search. Then you can open the relevant page (the page featuring the logo) of the .pdf in Illustrator. The original logo embedded in the .pdf is nearly always an Illustrator vector logo, perfect for use. Just grab it and you're away. It's laborious and more effort than it should be, but it beats going backwards and forwards for weeks."

I've tried it - and, yes, it works a treat.

Thanks very much for sharing that with us, Alistair.

Comments

[John Cooper]

A great service I recently had to use was vectormagic.com I does a fantastic job of 'vectorising' images. It was a free service but not it looks like one based on credits (you get some for free when you sign up) It's not perfect but you get a good amount of control and I haven't found a better application

[Ben]

Good tip, thanks.

Like your other commenter, I use Brands of the World most of the time.

[Alex]

I have to do this all the time when dealing with people who say eee ppp what? 99% of the time it is successful but it is also incredibly frustrating to find that some *very* large international organisations embed low res jpegs in their pdfs.