From aziz.mongi at qi.co.tz Fri Feb 1 11:43:29 2008 From: aziz.mongi at qi.co.tz (CheAziz) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:43:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Skencil-users] Opening/Converting Adobe Illustrator (Windows) files in Skencil Message-ID: <15224344.post@talk.nabble.com> Greetings! I am a very, very, very, very new Linux user. I took the ultimate (after procrastinating for over a year) decision and converted to Linux, running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). I am a media professional, and one of my major tasks involved professional graphic design work, which, until now, was done using Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Windows), exclusively. I have two options to solve my problem. 1) Installing VMWare, which requires a minimum of 1GB (recommended is 2GB) on my laptop, and then installing Adobe Illustrator CS2, and continue working as before... but what is the point? I am supposed to be using Linux, not Windows... 2) Solving the problem of compatibility, so that I can do all my vector graphic design with Linux. (I wonder why Adobe wont port Illustrator to Linux, since it is such a great package... LOL). I prefer solution number 2, but if solution number 1 is the only way out, I will follow it. I welcome your suggestions and advice. Many many regards, ./CheAziz Location: Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Opening-Converting-Adobe-Illustrator-%28Windows%29-files-in-Skencil-tp15224344p15224344.html Sent from the skencil-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. From Antoon.Pardon at rece.vub.ac.be Fri Feb 1 14:35:16 2008 From: Antoon.Pardon at rece.vub.ac.be (Antoon Pardon) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:35:16 +0100 Subject: [Skencil-users] Opening/Converting Adobe Illustrator (Windows) files in Skencil In-Reply-To: <15224344.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <15224344.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: <20080201133516.GJ9515@rcpc42.vub.ac.be> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:43:29AM -0800, CheAziz wrote: > > I have two options to solve my problem. > > 1) Installing VMWare, which requires a minimum of 1GB (recommended is 2GB) > on my laptop, and then installing Adobe Illustrator CS2, and continue > working as before... but what is the point? I am supposed to be using Linux, > not Windows... > > 2) Solving the problem of compatibility, so that I can do all my vector > graphic design with Linux. (I wonder why Adobe wont port Illustrator to > Linux, since it is such a great package... LOL). Did you try to open your adobe illustrator files with skencil? As far as I can see there is an ailoader plugin present that should be able to load those files. I have never used it, so I have no idea how good a job it does. -- Antoon Pardon From igor.e.novikov at gmail.com Fri Feb 1 14:43:25 2008 From: igor.e.novikov at gmail.com (Igor Novikov) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:43:25 +0200 Subject: [Skencil-users] Opening/Converting Adobe Illustrator (Windows) files in Skencil In-Reply-To: <20080201133516.GJ9515@rcpc42.vub.ac.be> References: <15224344.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080201133516.GJ9515@rcpc42.vub.ac.be> Message-ID: <23f7fc190802010543m41a60dfam7c14c852ad1f9167@mail.gmail.com> > > Did you try to open your adobe illustrator files with skencil? As far as > I can see there is an ailoader plugin present that should be able to > load those files. I have never used it, so I have no idea how good a > job it does. I think Skencil is not useful for Adobe Illustrator CS2 files. ailoader plugin can parse only Postscript based AI files, i.e. versions older AI 9. Adobe Illustrator CS2 format is PDF based. You can try using latest Inkscape version. It seems this version has a good PDF importer. Sincerely, Igor Novikov sK1 Team http://sk1project.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/skencil-users/attachments/20080201/3f9d6f27/attachment.htm From igor.e.novikov at gmail.com Fri Feb 1 14:54:35 2008 From: igor.e.novikov at gmail.com (Igor Novikov) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:54:35 +0200 Subject: [Skencil-users] UniConvertor 1.1.1 release Message-ID: <23f7fc190802010554p61c96d84x59f683e76bfd0149@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, sK1 project has released UniConvertor 1.1.1. The main release feature is importer for CorelDRAW X4 files. As you known CorelDRAW X4 has released ~10 days ago. This version has a new CDR14 format which is highly similar to MS Office 2007 files. Source code and ready binary packages are available on project site: http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor Sincerely, Igor Novikov sK1 Team http://sk1project.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/skencil-users/attachments/20080201/c254ccaf/attachment.html From cerboblu at googlemail.com Thu Feb 7 02:30:31 2008 From: cerboblu at googlemail.com (cerbo) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 01:30:31 +0000 Subject: [Skencil-users] Opening/Converting Adobe Illustrator (Windows) files in Skencil Message-ID: <254dacd50802061730y1ae8d27ag21fc93d0dd2d5cd0@mail.gmail.com> Hi, actually pstoedit, which has a dedicated sketch/skencil output format does a pretty good job in converting pdf to skencil files. It also seems to filter Adobe Illustrator 10 files in ai/pdf format well enough. I tried some examples from http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/klingensmith/Adobe%20Illustrator%2010/Sample%20Files/Sample%20Art/ Most give nice results in skencil when converted with pstoedit while the built-in import filter does not recognise these files as noted by Igor. (The Flower.ai example fails to convert though). cerbo