can an ai (adobe Illus) file be converted to Corel 12?

by SnakesInTheTower 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  SnakesInTheTower

  just a shout out to poster georgiegirl (or anyone who can do this)...

  Is it possible to downgrade an .ai file (I believe this is in Adobe Illustrator V. 10) down to an Adobe Illustrator version 7 file? Or convert to CorelDraw 12? The shop that we took it to locally is using CD12...and only has Adobe 7. Personally I wouldnt have used that particular shop for printing or anything... for one particular use, we are piggybacking on another organization and they made the decision to use that vendor. Our group is using another more professional shop for the rest of our printing needs.

  BTW....Georgiegirl did an awesome job with my logo project...and so quickly too....literally overnight.....thanks also to sacolton who offered help also..

  We have such great talent on this board...amazing what kind of talent WTBTS is attempting to supress.. each of us that escapes can prove them wrong on the whole "education is evil and unnecessary" thing..lol

  Snakes ()
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  Mastodon

  I know you could import from Corel to Illustrator, not sure if the same holds in reverse. If you want to save an .ai file from version 10 to 7, what you can do is open the file>save as>and choose .eps and in the options you should be able to take it down to 7 or to Legacy (not sure if that started on version 10 or CS). I just checked on CS3 and it lets me go down all the way to illustrator 3, so you should be able to do it as well on version 10.

  Let me know if you need further assistance.

  -Rick

  p.s.-Any print shop using Illustrator 7 or ANY version of Corel should, as an act of mercy, be burned to the ground.
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  mostlydead

  www.signsofprog.com/includes/downloads/ccustfiles2004.doc

  I searched around and this seems to be a good reference for handling these files. Generally the suggestion is to save the AI file as an EPS, but there are some cautions about doing that and instructions for doing it correctly in this document. Hope it helps.
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  Mastodon

  Mostlydead, love your nick and avatar! One of my favorite movies EVER!!! INCONCEIVABLE!!!
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  Georgiegirl

  Awwww. Thanks. ;) Yes - that would be my recommendation as well - depending on the version of corel, save it as an eps or ps files and then import it into corel. If your illustrator file has text, make sure you convert text to curves before saving it and bringing it into corel (make it vector art).
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  Georgiegirl

  oh - and yes, you can try doing a file save as and selecting a lower version of illustrator. Any special effects that you have added that aren't support may be lost, but usually you wan't have big issues. The biggest thing is always the fonts...
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  SnakesInTheTower

  just getting back online...school kicking my tail... and thank you all for the input. What I dont understand is that I have multiple flavors of the file thanks to gg. Included in that is an eps file. When I gave the person at the print shop (seems to be more of a tshirt shop but also does banners, etc), my flash drive had .ai (v10), eps, pdf, jpg, and gif.

  I dont think this guy who owns this place knows his butt from a hole in the ground. However, I did not choose the place. The college campus club that I am part of is teaming up with another club on a joint use poster for events that we co-sponsor. We need to add our very professional looking logo to their very amateur logo on the poster. When we do our own we will be using a different shop.

  mastadon:

  Any print shop using Illustrator 7 or ANY version of Corel should, as an act of mercy, be burned to the ground

  I wish you could see this dump. I live in a town that has died but someone forgot to tell it and shut off the lights. These print shops are all either very amateur or outrageously expensive, or both. I have to go to St. Louis if I want a real print shop.

  I will forward the info above to the print shop.

  gg:

  If your illustrator file has text, make sure you convert text to curves before saving it and bringing it into corel (make it vector art).

  i am not exactly certain what you just said...I presume the name of the club in the logo is text and not some sort of graphic but I dont know.. you made it all pretty... and you saved it as multiple files...I dont know why the print shop doesnt know this...

  Snakes ()