I know this is for Photoshop, but I work mostly in Illustrator and save things when its done in Photoshop when needed. the Design work is flexable Illustrator.

My problem is I have a large complex map I am working on with 5 overlays in Illustrator. it is about 1 gig of info within it. the map size is 24"x18". I want it to have good resolution (not rasor sharp but easy readable.)

I am using web colors to cut down on Ram and HD space.
I have 22 gigs of hard drive space to work with, with 512 of Ram. using widows XP. now that I have completed The map, I can't save the final product. I have only part of the map that is saved. I had planed on opening it up in Photoshop and save it as a JPEG to cut down on file size.

When I try to save it I get a message of haveing problems with PDF file. it won't save it. I try to save it Adobe Illustrator file, it says not enough memory. I try to save it as an EPS file, I can't remember the result is says but it won't save it. probably the same answer.

I have enouth HD space. I would think that 512 Ram would be significent to do the jop. I don't want to loose all this work. I'm not on any deadline with it at all, (Personal Project). Any suggestions what I can do. I looked under Preferences to see if It had a place to open up more HD alocation within Illustrator. I couldn't find any. I thought maybe Illustrator might have only a standard amount of HD allowance that could be adjusted?

When I try to export the map into Photoshop I only get a one overlay. I had already flattend the overlays hopeing everything I could save would help. HELP!