I’m creating my first web site, and this is something really basic. On each page, I’m placing a grayscale pdf created in Photoshop. I’m doing a “Save for web,” and converting the images to a “GIF 64 dithered.” When I save the files, I get the following message:
*“Some names of the files being saved contain non-Latin characters. These file names will be incompatible with some Web browsers and servers.”
*The problem is that my file names are all alpha-numeric, specifically 3 letters and 3 numbers. Why am I getting this message, and can I just ignore it?
If it matters, I’m doing this on a G5 Mac in OS 10.4.11.
I assume you are saving from an Adobe CS application such as Illustrator or Photoshop. What is the name of the *folder *you are saving to? I believe you may have a problem if the folder name contains non-latin characters. For example, some people like to put a bullet in a folder name to get it to appear at the top of a list. If you remove the bullet (or other character), your problem may go away.
Thanks, Simmerdown, that’s the problem; all of my folder names contain word spaces, which normally is not a problem on a Mac. But I really don’t want to rename over 1000 folders unless I really have to. Can I just ignore the warning, since I won’t be uploading the folders, just the files?
Yes. Just double-check that the file is where you put it by browsing to it.
Also note that, at least in Photoshop 7, when you “Save for Web” PS will chop the end off long file names no matter how you type it in. So you might save a file as “MyPDFFileForTheWebSite.gif” and it’ll just automatically save as “MyPDFFileForTh.gif” and you’ll go mad trying to figure out why your image isn’t showing.
That’s just a tip, though. May not be relevant because…
Versions of Photoshop made in this century don’t do that anymore
That what I figured but “I want to place a pdf” makes no sense. I suppose he means an image and not a pdf. I just can’t make any sense of why he would make the mistake of calling an image a pdf.