El 08/03/13 15:24, mathog escribió:
On 07-Mar-2013 18:19, Josh Andler wrote:
The language from it "Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor" does indeed double down on it with that text I pasted which breaks down the SVG acronym.
You guys need to set Adobe straight. All of these years they have been erroneously marketing Illustrator as "graphic design software" when apparently it is really just a ".ai editor"!
As far as I can remember, AI has an export dialog too, and that's used for lossy formats. Also when you open non-native formats AI appends the name "converted" (it think it was converted, or imported. I can't remember) and when you save it will offer AI as fromat. You have to explicitly change the format if you want to save an imported project into a non-native format.
Anyway, to be fair I have to say that the save command allows other formats than .ai, but those are formats are vector formats (non-vector formats have to be EXPORTED).
So, I'd say that Adobe Illustrator doesn't actuall allow to "save" to other vector formats, it rather uses the save dialog to export.
You can't do rountrip open > save workflows with illustrator and not native formats (notice that the current AI format is a PDF with some extra sfuff, so it's treated more or less like a native file).
Your example doesn't exactly endorse your position. Illustrator imports bitmaps, export bitmaps, opens vector files but the actually imports them (it offers its native format for saving them back). It just "saves as" non-native formats if you expressely change the format.
I'd say the only high end example I know that does things as you say it's Photoshop, hence the huge debate when GIMP changed the way it works. The other programs I know and used seem to support open and save for their native formats and all the rest is supported through import/export.
Gez.