Hi List,
I am discovering InkScape with great pleasure. It seems to have the confort of Illustrator, of which I've been a fan since version 3.2, but adopts more standards, and maybe even more interactivity!
One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues: - shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or less) are filled with black - no text is imported
I am on the impression that, most probably, I am using a wrong version of the Illustrator documents... but ill2svg says nothing about the supported versions... My attempt was on Illustrator 8 format (Mac line-endings) and Illustrator 5.5 format (Mac line-endings).... should I go as far as Illustrator 3 ?
thanks
paul
Hi Paul,
I think our use of ill2svg only really works on versions Illustrator 7 and prior. After 7 I believe Adobe moved the illustrator .ai file format to the PDF file format.
Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Libbrecht" <paul@...265...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] difficulties with ill2svg
Hi List,
I am discovering InkScape with great pleasure. It seems to have the confort of Illustrator, of which I've been a fan since version 3.2, but adopts more standards, and maybe even more interactivity!
One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues:
- shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or less)
are filled with black
- no text is imported
I am on the impression that, most probably, I am using a wrong version of the Illustrator documents... but ill2svg says nothing about the supported versions... My attempt was on Illustrator 8 format (Mac line-endings) and Illustrator 5.5 format (Mac line-endings).... should I go as far as Illustrator 3 ?
thanks
paul
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Hi, Thats correct after AI7 they are actually PDF files. I'm working with this but been so busy that I Haven't got time fix this issue.
Tuukka
Hi Paul,
I think our use of ill2svg only really works on versions Illustrator 7 and prior. After 7 I believe Adobe moved the illustrator .ai file format to the PDF file format.
Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Libbrecht" <paul@...265...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] difficulties with ill2svg
Hi List,
I am discovering InkScape with great pleasure. It seems to have the confort of Illustrator, of which I've been a fan since version 3.2, but adopts more standards, and maybe even more interactivity!
One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues:
- shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or
less) are filled with black
- no text is imported
I am on the impression that, most probably, I am using a wrong version of the Illustrator documents... but ill2svg says nothing about the supported versions... My attempt was on Illustrator 8 format (Mac line-endings) and Illustrator 5.5 format (Mac line-endings).... should I go as far as Illustrator 3 ?
thanks
paul
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Well... I've tried the following and seem to be, consistently, experiencing the same errors: - no text objects - a kind of black rectangle on the left bottom
Here is an example data: How it should look like: http://klein.activemath.org/~paul/Table_Salle_A_manger_harico.png The saved Illustrator file (saved as Illustrator 7, eps, postscript-level-2) http://klein.activemath.org/~paul/Table_Salle_A_manger_harico.eps The produced SVG: http://klein.activemath.org/~paul/Table_Salle_A_manger_harico.svg (looks the same in Inkscape and Adobe's SVG plugin).
If anyone can help... should I post a bug ?
paul
Le 11 oct. 04, à 09:50, Tuukka Pasanen a écrit :
Hi, Thats correct after AI7 they are actually PDF files. I'm working with this but been so busy that I Haven't got time fix this issue.
Tuukka
Hi Paul,
I think our use of ill2svg only really works on versions Illustrator 7 and prior. After 7 I believe Adobe moved the illustrator .ai file format to the PDF file format.
Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Libbrecht" <paul@...265...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] difficulties with ill2svg
Hi List,
I am discovering InkScape with great pleasure. It seems to have the confort of Illustrator, of which I've been a fan since version 3.2, but adopts more standards, and maybe even more interactivity!
One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues:
- shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or
less) are filled with black
- no text is imported
I am on the impression that, most probably, I am using a wrong version of the Illustrator documents... but ill2svg says nothing about the supported versions... My attempt was on Illustrator 8 format (Mac line-endings) and Illustrator 5.5 format (Mac line-endings).... should I go as far as Illustrator 3 ?
thanks
paul
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Yes....
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Well... I've tried the following and seem to be, consistently, experiencing the same errors:
- no text objects
- a kind of black rectangle on the left bottom
Here is an example data: How it should look like: http://klein.activemath.org/~paul/Table_Salle_A_manger_harico.png The saved Illustrator file (saved as Illustrator 7, eps, postscript-level-2) http://klein.activemath.org/~paul/Table_Salle_A_manger_harico.eps The produced SVG: http://klein.activemath.org/~paul/Table_Salle_A_manger_harico.svg (looks the same in Inkscape and Adobe's SVG plugin).
If anyone can help... should I post a bug ?
paul
Le 11 oct. 04, à 09:50, Tuukka Pasanen a écrit :
Hi, Thats correct after AI7 they are actually PDF files. I'm working with this but been so busy that I Haven't got time fix this issue.
Tuukka
Hi Paul,
I think our use of ill2svg only really works on versions Illustrator 7 and prior. After 7 I believe Adobe moved the illustrator .ai file format to the PDF file format.
Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Libbrecht" <paul@...265...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] difficulties with ill2svg
Hi List,
I am discovering InkScape with great pleasure. It seems to have the confort of Illustrator, of which I've been a fan since version 3.2, but adopts more standards, and maybe even more interactivity!
One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues:
- shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or
less) are filled with black
- no text is imported
I am on the impression that, most probably, I am using a wrong version of the Illustrator documents... but ill2svg says nothing about the supported versions... My attempt was on Illustrator 8 format (Mac line-endings) and Illustrator 5.5 format (Mac line-endings).... should I go as far as Illustrator 3 ?
thanks
paul
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On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 13:30, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
One project I'd like to try is to bring the library of plan-sketches of our furnitures from Illustrator to InkScape... But I am encountering at least the following two issues:
- shapes that have "zero-stroke" (that it "printer-dot-thin" more or
less) are filled with black
- no text is imported
Hmm, ill2svg should support the versions of Illustrator that you are mentioning -- perhaps that line type isn't implemented. I know that Tuukka was looking for test files when he was working on this, but no one seemed to have any. If you could put some in a bug report, that would be really cool.
Also, when you do get these drawings converted to SVG, have you considered contributing them to the Open Clipart Library?
www.openclipart.org
--Ted
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