Adobe Illustrator equivalent for Ubuntu

Kipton Moravec kip at kdream.com
Wed Jul 20 14:35:55 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 20:07 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/19/2011 07:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 07/18/2011 11:38 PM, Paul Sladen wrote:
> >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> >>> I had just found Inkscape bit it does not export or import .IA format.
> >> 
> >> Since Adobe Illustrator version 9, the '.ai' file-format has been
> >> based on PDF.
> >> 
> >> You should be able to export as PDF in both directions without
> >> significant problems.
> ...
> > 
> > Nice catch.
> > 
> > I renamed the .ai test files to .pdf and of course they opened just fine
> > in Adobe Reader and Evince.
> > I then opened one of my .svgs from Inkscape & exported it to .pdf.
> > Reopened the svg/pdf in Inkscape and I can edit etc. I then renamed that
> > .pdf to .ai and it opens in Inkscape w/o issue & I can edit. I can't
> > test w/AI as I do not have it.
> > 
> 
> One added note for Kipton; you may find this of use:
> http://www.linuxalt.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 

That is a super list. Thank you!

Kip






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