On 7/10/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
Illustrator files are basically PDF files with some extra stuff for editing (a bit like Inkscape SVG files are SVG files with some extra stuff for editing). Therefore, any PDF converter should be able to process at least some of it.
In fact, I expect that our PDF importer, currently in the works based on libpoppler, will import _most_ of modern AI files (CS, CS2 etc). They are standard PDF as far as I know. The libpoppler library grows out of xpdf, so you can just install xpdf and try it on your AI files. In my testing, it was able to display all of the PDF-based AI files I have without any problem. And this means these files will soon be directly importable into Inkscape.
some went through quite well. Furthermore, Inkscape has an AI import filter which should allow you to open at least some AI files.
That filter only works on very old PS-based AI files (up to version 7 I think). Also it is very limited, unmaintained, and probably broken. I think we'll just drop it as soon as we can import modern PDF-based AI files via libpoppler.