On 2007-July-10 , at 23:18 , chacmool wrote:
[...] I hope this helps, if some one else has an easier solution feel free to let me know.
Also maybe the developers of Inkscape can ask the ones who develop GIMP to see what sort of converter they use to be able to open Adobe Illustrator files.
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. I tried some files with pstoedit and some went through quite well. Furthermore, Inkscape has an AI import filter which should allow you to open at least some AI files. The extension is written in Perl so you need perl on your system (but you probably have it already). There is even a python replacement in the patch tracker if I remember well. All this should allow you to get the information in vector form directly, rather than retracing over your old drawing. Another solution your your purpose is to install use Illustrator via wine or any other windows virtualization software on linux and to save all your AI files to svg for futher use in Inkscape. A quick one- liner terminal command to locate all of them: find /home -name *.ai
I hope this helps.
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