Problems with .ai files

**Egg Bramhill** · 10 July 2007, 04:11 AM

Don't you all love the line that goes:-

"Company Name" cold calling service creates a win-win situation for organizations and their salespeople.

It doesn't mention the potential customers (read: victims!) who are left as gibbering idiots at the end of their phone lines (of which they pay the rental) after being called at 10 am whilst on night shift for the seventh time that day by a gentleman from Delhi called "Dougal" wanting to inform him of the "good news" that he can have the latest Nokia 5001 XZ mobile phone at an unbelievable, never to be repeated, knock-down price, regardless of the fact that he has informed this same company 431 times that he has been declared bankrupt, insolvent and psychologically unstable and to kindly remove his name from their database before he commits murder in the name of this "win-win scenario" ..........

Oh, apart from that Catharina, the file opens fine

**netsi** · 10 July 2007, 06:01 AM

Hi,

Nice trick to import .AI files by importing them as PDF files

But on the other hand sad that you need to know tricks to get Xtreme to do the job for you

What I did was:

Open a empty document
Choose "Import" (Ctrl+Shift+I)
Locate and select the .AI file (with file type set to ALL)
Change file type to "PDF (*.pdf)"
Press Open

Some fonts I have not, so they are substituded of cause.

Interesting files btw

**Albacore** · 10 July 2007, 09:14 AM

Opened in both XPro and Illy. The file was generated with a mixture of RGB and CMYK colour mode and that is why the 2nd page bitmap does not appear well to put it mildly at the bitmap header at the top and the first page you will have to download CMYK template from the Xone to see the correct colours. If you want I will upload both pages but if you are using the most up to date version of XPro you should be able to do it yourself, ask away here if you want that done. Had to convert all text to shapes in both page 1 & 3 so all text is non editable.

**catharina** · 10 July 2007, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

.. before he commits murder in the name of this "win-win scenario" ..........

...tee...hee....I don't write em, I just post em...

Renaming them as pdf's works great....thanks ever so much! I was trying to import them too and was using your method, netsi, but if I don't need to change them and just post them then this is perfect! When I do the website I will only need the images in screen resolution and I'll be using a web safe font.

Nice to learn what XtremePro can do tho regarding importing of Illustrator files. I have not worked enough with it to justify the expense. I only need to open the odd file now and then, and some of them are very odd indeed!

Albacore, any chance of getting a link to that CMYK template from the Xone here? I'd like to have a look.

Thanks for the help folks!
Cat =^..^=