[Clipart] pron

Alan Horkan horkana at maths.tcd.ie
Sun Jul 31 08:17:19 PDT 2005


On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:35:32 +0300
> From: Nicu Buculei <nicu at apsro.com>
> To: Open Clip Art Library <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] pron
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >
> >>For newer versions, .ai == .pdf
> >
> >
> > AI == PDF in the same sense that Inkscape == XML.  Unless Adobe
> > Illustrator users have chosen special PDF compatability options when
> > saving, you cannot view the files using standard PDF viewers.
>
> In my limited experience, it was enough to change the extension from .ai
> to .pdf and Evince opened the file

I was testing it just the other day but none of the files I used included
the extra PDF information so I got a standard warning message (embedded in
the file) telling me files needed to be saved with the compatibility
option turned on.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan



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