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Xara X5 has an import of: Adobe Illustrator [*.ai, *.eps]
Photoshop CS4 can Export Paths to Illustrator as .ai
Why can't Xara Import the .ai file?
Workaround Found here
Import ai into Xara: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=36226
I realize the Import is not: "Photoshop Paths to Illustrator[*.ai]"
But why the F would Adobe make two different codes for the same type of file?
:mad:
possibly it is a case of the xtreme 5 import filter not handling the photoshop output
its been impoved to handle CS4 illustrator output which is nice :) - up until then we were stuck with legacy 8
third parties such as xara can only spend so much time updating their filters and its likely just not feasible every time there is a change ;)
Actually it is more like several dozen different versions of .ai, .ps, and .eps files.Quote:
Originally Posted by sadicus
Postscript is actually much older than Adobe and was never meant to be used as a graphic file type.
Perhaps some history would help people know more about the problems using a programming language as a graphics file:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript for the EPS derivative of PostScript.
There are quite a few tools which could do this for you and all convert it to PDF. I use both of these programmes at regular intervals as I have to convert large eps files at my work and I either take them into AI or XPro. Here is the list and Primo is the best: https://online.primopdf.com/Default.aspx
http://www.convertfiles.com/