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ai) file into Inkscape, and it works the same as dragging a PDF file.Īfter importing the file a pop-up dialogue will appear asking about the importing parameters, tweak them if necessary and hit apply. ai), yet the data is stored in the file in a structure similar to PDF, so you can just change the extension of the file from (.ai) to (.pdf), and Inkscape will open the file without hassle. The good news is that newer versions of Illustrator use Adobe PDF structure, even though the extension is still (.

Set the importing parameters and press apply.Ģ.

Open the file with Inkscape or just drag and drop it in the software.

Change the extension of the file from.

If you are in Windows add Ghostscript to the environment path.

Old, up to Illustrator 8.0 file formatįrom the beginning and up to version 8.0, Illustrator was using an old version of PostScript, yet only Inkscape running under Linux is capable of understanding PostScript without the installation of augmenting tools, just like Ghostscript, which have to be installed in Windows and MacOS, in order to be able to open old Illustrator format. ai) files from Inkscape: get rid of all clips, masks, filters, blurs, and also ensure that all text objects are converted to path.Īdobe Illustrator changed the structure of its default output file format starting at version 9.0: 1. ai) files in Inkscape: make sure there are no special effects that are present in Illustrator and not in Inkscape, and to just get things done without much headache, ask the other party to convert all objects to paths, and expand appearances of all objects. So, both ways of translation may result in some issues, but to surpass these issues you need to insure:

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ai uses proprietary code to store vector data, especially those features present only in Illustrator.

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New, from Illustrator 9.0 file format.Įxchanging the files between Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape results in some issues, because the translation is far from perfect, also because the two software perform differently under the hood for example, Inkscape’s default output file is the standard SVG, where it uses XML format to store vector data, while most of Illustrator’s.

You can then report the problem as a bug to the appropriate site. If the PDF looks poor in Acrobat then that's a Ghostscript problem. If the PDF looks fine in Acrobat, but not so good in Inkscape, then I'd say that's an Inkscape problem. You can also open the PDF in, say, Acrobat to see if it looks OK there. You could use Ghostscript to convert the EPS to PDF yourself, and then try loading the PDF into Inkscape to see if you get a better result.

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Shadings will either have to be rendered to an image or converted into a complex series of SVG primitives.įollowing the link on 'How to open EPS files in Windows' from the FAQ suggests to me that EPS files are either rendered to an image or converted to PDF. That's going to mean that an awful lot of PostScript (and PDF) vector objects aren't going to be represented well. inkscape option performs no better-texts are not rendered correctly and Ghostcript option throws me an error saying Unknown device: epswrite. Reading through the Inkscape FAQ it seems that Inkscape uses SVG as its native format. Generally I'd say this looks like an Inkscape bug and you should report it as such. It's not entirely obvious what you used to render the left hand image, is that Ghostscript ?

It could also be a problem calculating a clip. This could simply be a rendering problem with Inkscape, or it could be that the radial fill has an Extend parameter which isn't being honoured. I'd suggest that the circular artefacts are caused by radial fills not being rendered completely. It's a little difficult to tell, partly because this is a complex illustration and partly because the rendering is a little small.