# freehandMX: trouble exporting / saving as EPS

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/freehandmx-trouble-exporting-saving-as-eps/54601>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [June 16, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/freehandmx-trouble-exporting-saving-as-eps/54601 "2004-06-16T02:30:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![GOLGO\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@GOLGO\_13](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GOLGO_13)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/freehandmx-trouble-exporting-saving-as-eps/54601/1 "2004-06-16T02:30:34Z")

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w’sup everybody,

**i’m having MAJOR problems exporting and/or saving an illustration i created in freehand MX as an EPS. my objective is to be able to open the illustration in Photoshop, and continue workng on it there. i dont nesc. need to preserve the layers of the freehand document (would be nice though)… i just need the illustration exported with a transparent background, that i can work on in PS7**

i seem to be able to save/export it as a .psd fine, but it gets “flattend” and a white background is added.

this is an old illustration i created a while back, so the file is BIG… with lots of transparencies, gradients and layers. when i try saving/exporting… the program eventually just freezes.

a year ago or so, i DID find a solution… (trying to remember… but i think it involved “flatening” the layers inside the freehand document, and then maybe exporting to fireworksMX, and then to PS… but i cant remember now exactly what i did.)

i’m running freehand MX, on Windows XP machine, with a PIII and 800k+ ram.