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From: Gavin Lawrie on 3 Mar 2010 08:50
Would value any suggestions about the best way for me to open for
editing some relatively old Adobe Illustrator files that doesn't
involve using Adobe Illustrator...

One option presumably is to convert the files to some other format via
a converter.
Another would be to use an application that can read the files.

My interest is to move the files to a format that will allow me to
continue to use the files but will not be dependent upon having Adobe
Illustrator around to do this.

Thanks in advance etc.

From: nospam on 3 Mar 2010 09:02
In article <4b8e6929$0$8301$c34e2906(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, Gavin
Lawrie <gavin.lawrie(a)2gc.co.uk> wrote:

> Would value any suggestions about the best way for me to open for
> editing some relatively old Adobe Illustrator files that doesn't
> involve using Adobe Illustrator...

they are encapsulated postscript.
From: Tom Harrington on 3 Mar 2010 11:43
In article <4b8e6929$0$8301$c34e2906(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie(a)2gc.co.uk> wrote:

> Would value any suggestions about the best way for me to open for
> editing some relatively old Adobe Illustrator files that doesn't
> involve using Adobe Illustrator...

If it's just a matter of not having Illustrator and not needing it
enough to justify buying-- They do have a free trial you can download.
Get that, convert, and get rid of it.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Gavin Lawrie on 3 Mar 2010 12:09
Thanks for comments.

The files are in .ai format - I don't know which version of AI was used
to create them, but almost certainly pre CS2.

I did think about an import via a trial copy - but then the question
becomes what format to save them in so that access is maintained
subsequently?

I don't know what AI would export to - presumably EPS, but maybe also SVG?

What I don't want to do is export them to some format that subsequently
makes it hard to edit the file (e.g. for illustration - jpg).

What would be my best choice?

From: Tom Harrington on 3 Mar 2010 14:47
In article <4b8e97c1$0$6001$c39e29d6(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie(a)2gc.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for comments.
>
> The files are in .ai format - I don't know which version of AI was used
> to create them, but almost certainly pre CS2.
>
> I did think about an import via a trial copy - but then the question
> becomes what format to save them in so that access is maintained
> subsequently?
>
> I don't know what AI would export to - presumably EPS, but maybe also SVG?
>
> What I don't want to do is export them to some format that subsequently
> makes it hard to edit the file (e.g. for illustration - jpg).
>
> What would be my best choice?

It's hard to say without an idea of what tools you have (or are likely
to have) and what type of editing you might want to do in the future.
Illustrator will "save as" to EPS and SVG and export to a variety of
other formats. There's no direct replacement for AI though, so if
you're looking at full Illustrator-style editing then AI may be the only
real option.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
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