Re: [artworks] Ungainly failed import

[Simon Smith <simon_smith@xxxxxxxxx>]

In message <7ddb09384f.eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Eddie <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <32caf6374f.zen44412@xxxxxxxxx>
>           Simon Smith <simon_smith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote thus:
> 
> > In message <d7a3f6374f.zen44412@xxxxxxxxx>
> >           Simon Smith <simon_smith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> It's in Illustrator CS2 format. Displays fine on an Acorn if you set the
> >> filetype to PDF, but won't load into ArtWorks whatever you do to it.
> 
> If it displays well as a pdf - can you not then export it from !pdf as 
> a draw file. Should keep is vector paths OK.
> 
> > Apologies - fat-fingered the URL.
> 
> > http://simon-smith.org/images/celtic_knot4.ai

Thanks, but it's a finished image and I don't need to alter it further. I
was mostly interested in seeing whether AW would display it at all, and when
ArtWorks misbehaved slightly it seemed only fair to report it.

Looking more closely at the display of the .PDF version, PDF and GView both
display the paths OK, but neither takes any notice of the radial fills. I
believe that is expected behaviour. The lack of the black background is also
as expected, because I set the black background colour when I exported the
PNG file from Illustrator, producing

http://simon-smith.org/images/celtic_knot4.png

On the whole the AW/Illustrator comparison was an interesting one, but I
think I still prefer ArtWorks. Illustrator's extensive list of extra
features do not impress me that much, and I find ArtWorks is a lot faster
and easier to use. And its redraw was smoother and faster on a 600MHz Iyonix
than on a 2GHz Intel laptop.


The switch from the .AI filetype being an EPS-like format to .AI being a
.PDF-like format is a far greater annoyance; what should one do with one's
mime map files to address that??


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