Printing Xara specific gradients/transparencies

[mwenz]

I am creating a design which uses an elliptical fill. When exported as a .pdf and opened in Illustrator, the fill is given the name "non-native art" and is rasterized.
My question is this: if the print job were for the side of a van, could XDP be used to do this and retain a pure vector output?
Bob.

Bob, depending on the PDF settings, it is still vector in the PDF and in Illustrator. Illy just doesn't understand the fill type and so cannot deal with it.

The following screen shot is of a circular gradient from XDP and checked in Acrobat. It's vector.



The next screen shot is the same PDF, taken into Illy and then a new PDF created. That PDF was then brought into XDP. It is still vector and the fill can be edited inside XDP. Who's the smart one in this instance? Yep, XDP.



Take care, Mike