inkscape 0.44 and ai format

[FTR]

I downloaded the current version of Inkscape to open an ai file which
inkscape should be able to open. But I didn't succeed.
Any othr freeware to open ai files ?

- Frank

 

[John Jay Smith]

If you want to simply view the AI files then XNview can view them as shown
here

http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enformats.html

but you will also need to install GhostScript www.ghostscript.com

also free

 

[Morgan Ohlson]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:59:28 +0200, FTR wrote:


Does OOo Draw conquer inkscape domains?


Morgan O.

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

I downloaded the current version of Inkscape to open an ai file
which inkscape should be able to open. But I didn't succeed.
Any othr freeware to open ai files ?

there was a thread about some times ago.

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/e9fe9784736b63d6>
<http://tinyurl.com/ot6s2>

I can't get XnView to show my sample .ai (v3)...

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[Chris Dubea]

I downloaded the current version of Inkscape to open an ai file which
inkscape should be able to open. But I didn't succeed.
Any othr freeware to open ai files ?

- Frank

I would be really surprised to find one. Adobe vigorously protects
it's file formats and encryption routines.

If you don't believe me, ask Dmitri Sklyarov.


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Chris

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

I would be really surprised to find one. Adobe vigorously
protects it's file formats and encryption routines.

I thought .ai is just a dialect of postscript, the .ai files I
have can be opened with text editor as well (of course I don't
want to edit bezier definitions in text modus).

In theory Inkscape already does the job, but I wasn't able to
configure it that way on Windows. On Linux it should work
out of the box.

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[FTR]

Hello,


I thought .ai is just a dialect of postscript, the .ai files I
have can be opened with text editor as well (of course I don't
want to edit bezier definitions in text modus).

In theory Inkscape already does the job, but I wasn't able to
configure it that way on Windows. On Linux it should work
out of the box.

Regards,
Thorsten

I found an Inkscape manual that mentioned that importing ai images
probably only works under Linux. So, as I work under Windows, no choice.