Re: [artworks] Exporting to the outside world

  • From: Clive Bonsall <c.bonsall@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 18:32:40 +0100

On 8 May 2012, at 17:41, Kell Gatherer wrote:

> I have a complicated Artworks file with many layers that I'd like to hand 
> over to someone else, for, as one might say, posterity....
> 
> It's a map of Soho, central London, with 150 or so streets, showing one way 
> streets, parking, underground stations etc.
> 
> There's a project I'd like to become involved in, and although I could carry 
> on altering the original, and exporting as a bit-map, I'd prefer to be able 
> to hand over a version that others could edit in... what? Adobe Illustrator?
> 
> Is there an export route that will preserve layers? For example, if I 
> purchase Corel Draw, would it be able to import my file, and then export it 
> in an editable form?


I think layers will be preserved if you export as PDF … at least in a PDF 
exported from Adobe Illustrator. I haven't tried it from ArtWorks.
==
Clive Bonsall
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