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I've ran into this problem twice in the last few weeks. I can't import .ai or .eps files created on a Mac using Adobe Illustrator. I can open the jpegs. These were two different graphic deigners, one uses Illustrator 9 and the other tried 9 and 10.I am using Windows XP and VinylMaster Pro version 2.7(latest). I can't import them into Coreldraw 10 either. Corel said that the files were corrupt on the last job. This time it imported it, but the fills aren't correct.I also tried my laptop, using Windows 98 and Signmate (Stika version.) Is this a Mac/PC incompatibility problem? Help??!! Please!
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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What rick said. Earlier versions will open up with no problems. I usually use version 3 to 6 when moving files from my mac to my pc.
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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I just finished a job with vector art from a marketing firm using MAC OS version 9 and designing with "Freehand" and exporting files as .ai and .eps....same major headaches also mostly solved saving files as older .ai 6....I did have trouble with path nodes breaking apart in conversion and such. So many marketing designers need to have sign guys on call...
In my past experience, designers using MAC OS 10 didn't cause near the problems converting to PC formats.
-------------------- Jimmy Goines Goines Signs Register, GA Posts: 25 | From: low country | Registered: Dec 2004
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It is probably a combination or either or of the following. For a stupid PC to read a file, it HAS to have the file extension after the file name like .ai for Adobe Illustrator.
If the extension is there, it's simply an old version vs. new version problem. Corel 10 was created when Illustrator 8 or 9 was out. That will be the newest version of Illustrator that Corel will be capable of opening. I have AI 8.0 on my PC. I have AI 9.0 on my Mac. AI 8.0 will not open my AI 9.0 files, but as soon as I save it back to AI 8.0 EVEN as a mac file, the PC AI will open the file IF it has the .ai extension at the end of the file name.
I use an older version of Signmate to cut with. I have to save my Illustrator files at version 5.0 or earlier for Signmate to open them. Saving AI files as version 6.0 works so well because A: it's old enough for most modern programs, and B: AI 6 files make the smallest file compared to the other versions.
Hope this helps.
[ January 04, 2005, 04:16 PM: Message edited by: Dave Sherby ]
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5397 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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What's up with that?? The line between Mac and PC is blurred more every day, with the advent of XP Professional; a very stable system! And so many softwares will cross platform, why would I buy one now?
Mac ignored us lowly sign people forever, and most of us were forced to go with IBM. Well, now that Mac has seen that we lowly sign people spend money on computer equipment, they are scrambling to get our business.
Not trying to hijack the post, but I'm sorry dude, too little too late.
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Have them save as an Illustrator EPS, version 6.
Not sure about all programs, but if you import even a version 6 as AI, it will mess up all the curves and it will make it worthless. Version 6 will keep you from having problems with the fills. Version 3 works, but not if there are any gradient fills. 3 is fine for artwork with no gradients.
Short answer is EPS 6.0. Haven't answered a question in months and got carried away.
By the way, if the mac user is sending on a CD, just make sure they burn the CD as ISO cross platform and they won't have problems. The only time I'll burn a CD otherwise (mac platform) is if it's only for myself, like copying my system folder.
By the way, Macs are ok, but don't let anybody tell ya that they're waterproof!
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Don....I relate to messed up curves and broken nodes and non opening files from Mac CD eps files.....
When I asked the marketing/graphic designers about the cross platform CD assurance, they acted like I was some kind of "unknowledgeable" sign geek....and I was left to my own sign geek devices.
The final graphics display indeed told the real story, as the designers draw it all on screen and print it on paper,and give us "their" art on CD, but they can't realize the importance of us sign guys that produce "their art" into outdoor reality....
"Isn't that special ?"....go figure that quote.....Jimmy
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-------------------- Jimmy Goines Goines Signs Register, GA Posts: 25 | From: low country | Registered: Dec 2004
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Thanks everybody. I had him re-save it to CD in version 3 of AI. It's not perfect, because of gradient fills, but at least I can work with it. Of course, I am a doofus with inferior equipment and software because he's been creating artwork for print customers for years. Some of these logo designers just don't get it that their artwork needs to look good for all mediums including embroidery and signage, not just brochures.
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