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Adobe Illustrator output.

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Adobe Illustrator output. John R. Culleton 03 May 14:20
  Adobe Illustrator output. Chris Mohler 03 May 16:34
   Adobe Illustrator output. John R. Culleton 03 May 20:59
  Adobe Illustrator output. Sven Neumann 03 May 21:18
   Adobe Illustrator output. Claus Cyrny 03 May 23:00
John R. Culleton
2007-05-03 14:20:47 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Adobe Illustrator output.

Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this trick on two different projects.

Chris Mohler
2007-05-03 16:34:25 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Adobe Illustrator output.

On 5/3/07, John R. Culleton wrote:

Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this trick on two different projects.

Which version(s) of AI have you used?

Thanks, Chris

John R. Culleton
2007-05-03 20:59:11 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Adobe Illustrator output.

On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:34, Chris Mohler wrote:

On 5/3/07, John R. Culleton wrote:

Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this trick on two different projects.

Which version(s) of AI have you used?

Thanks, Chris

I don't use AI. My customers do sometimes. Since Acrobat Reader stopped working after my latest download I don't use any Adobe products. Kpdf is a perfectly suitable substitute.

The AI files in question are from clients. One was prepared by AI 12.0. Another (different client) was 12.0.1 AFAIK. This is from reading the top lines of the file.

Sven Neumann
2007-05-03 21:18:18 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Adobe Illustrator output.

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:

Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format.

If these files are really PDF files, then GIMP should detect that and you wouldn't have to change the file extension. Do these files actually start with %PDF- ?

Sven

Claus Cyrny
2007-05-03 23:00:49 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Adobe Illustrator output.

Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:

Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format.

If these files are really PDF files, then GIMP should detect that and you wouldn't have to change the file extension. Do these files actually start with %PDF- ?

Sven

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The Gimp converts AI files to postscript, where you can set both the resolution and the amount of anti-aliasing. One .AI file I have on my computer (I'm using Ubuntu Linux) starts with '%!PS-Adobe-3.0' (Illustrator 8.0).

HTH,

Claus