Hi,
Unless anybody objects, I am going to remove AI export support from Inkscape. At the moment it doesn't work in SVN. I have a fix but:
1. The quality of the export is poor. 2. It only supports up to Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (released in 1998). 3. Versions of Illustrator from 10.0 (2001) support direct import of SVG.
Tav
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Unless anybody objects, I am going to remove AI export support from Inkscape. At the moment it doesn't work in SVN. I have a fix but:
- The quality of the export is poor.
- It only supports up to Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (released in 1998).
- Versions of Illustrator from 10.0 (2001) support direct import of
SVG.
How difficult would it be to reuse PDF export to write PDF based AI files?
Alexandre
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote the following on 8/10/2009 8:40 AM:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Unless anybody objects, I am going to remove AI export support fromInkscape. At the moment it doesn't work in SVN. I have a fix but:
- The quality of the export is poor.
- It only supports up to Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (released in 1998).
- Versions of Illustrator from 10.0 (2001) support direct import of
SVG.
How difficult would it be to reuse PDF export to write PDF based AI files?
Alexandre
Just to let you guys know, I export Inkscape artwork to Adobe Illustrator CS2 from time to time and Plain SVG is the format that I use. It has always worked flawlessly for me. I cannot verify how well that works with CS3 and CS4.
heathenx
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine<alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
How difficult would it be to reuse PDF export to write PDF based AI files?
You suggest that we reverse-engineer a closed and probably patent-protected format which contains stuff that mostly makes no sense for us anyway, due to the differences in document model?
I support removing AI export, I don't think anyone is using it anyway, it's just confusing for the user.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:27 PM, bulia byak wrote:
You suggest that we reverse-engineer a closed and probably patent-protected format which contains stuff that mostly makes no sense for us anyway, due to the differences in document model?
If we are able to read AI files, then why does writing them suddenly requires reverse engineering? :)
I support removing AI export, I don't think anyone is using it anyway, it's just confusing for the user.
I personally do not mind, but why not running a quick survey?
Alexandre
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine<alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
If we are able to read AI files, then why does writing them suddenly requires reverse engineering? :)
We read them simply as PDFs, ignoring all the proprietary stuff AI has shoved into it.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, bulia byak wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine<alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
If we are able to read AI files, then why does writing them suddenly requires reverse engineering? :)
We read them simply as PDFs, ignoring all the proprietary stuff AI has shoved into it.
Ah, so we drop the PGF bit?
Alexandre
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine<alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
Ah, so we drop the PGF bit?
I'm not sure what that is, but probably we do, unless Poppler supports it.
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