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Damaged Illustrator Files

How do I import an Illustrator file into Sketch?

PNG, JPG, TIFF, and WebP bitmap image files are supported for import, whilst Sketch can also open the vector formats SVG, PDF, and EPS.

If you’re importing a PDF document with multiple pages, each page will be imported separately and given its own Artboard.

AI and PSD files have limited support, and can only be opened as a single flattened layer.

Source: Importing (Sketch Official Documentation Website)

Best choice would be EPS and PDF.

But as SVG is supported, I will ask you to try Copy pasting. All objects copied from illustrator when pasted on to notepad or word are in SVG format and hence should show full support, not sure though.

How do I repair a damaged Adobe Illustrator (.AI) file?

That's like asking how to I repair a car after an accident. The answer is that it depends on what's wrong with it. Make sure its name is in the correct format, ending in .ai . If you can get it open, you can copy any salvageable parts you can find into a new file. You may try opening it in Acrobat Pro, or copying parts into Illustrator. But there's no one fix I know of.

Can a damaged Illustrator file be repaired?

Suppose you are saving as an .ai file (which you should do, because it’s the native file format).

Don’t save on network volumes (because Illustrator sometimes/often/in the most vulnerable moments does not like them). Also: no thumb drives or other removable media. And sometimes synched folders also cause problems (Google Drive, Dropbox or the like).

If saving takes too long, turn off PDF compatibility. On the other hand, if a file is damaged, but contains the PDF part, then you have a slight chance to recover at least parts of the file.

As others have already mentioned: check your fonts. check any linked media.

Connect a printer, set it up as default printer and turn it on. Illustrator needs a printer, because that information is embedded in the file. Network printer queues are something that Illustrator doesn’t particularly like. If you don’t have a printer, set up a PDF printer.

Check that you have enough space and access privileges on your hard disk.

If everything has gone wrong and you can’t open a file, try the following: create a new file in Illustrator and place (embed) the corrupt file. Sometimes this helps you to recover some parts. All effects and a lot of other stuff will be expanded. Only objects on artboards are included. You’ll have to release an awful lot of clipping masks.

Please watch this about how Illustrator saves files:

Did I inherit a bad Adobe Illustrator file?

From what you describe, my guess is that the file was created using the Web document profile. These documents have a feature called "Snap to Pixel" turned on by default, meant to prevent odd antialiasing artifact. This feature forces art to snap to the pixel grid. The easiest way to confirm this is to try and draw a path with a .5 pt stroke. If a document has Snap to Pixel turned on, the stroke will be forced to 1pt.

In the Transform panel, you can uncheck an option called "new objects snap to grid". The act of pixel snapping is actually a behavior or attribute of the object (you can have some objects in a doc that snap to the grid and other that don't).

I wrote up a detailed overview of the pros and cons of this behavior a while back: When Pixels Snap: Antialiasing in Illustrator CS5

Illustrator is showing the previous version of a file. What do I do?

Did you, as you were working on the file earlier, save a PDF? If so your changes may be in that PDF and not the Illustrator file.

One of my many, many, complaints about Illustrator is a lack of PDF export. Saving a lo-res PDF means doing a Save, doing a Save As, changing the format, possible changing the file name, possibly changing the destination, changing the format options, closing the file (because now the lo-res PDF is the active file), the reopening the Illustrator file.

You can make that a bit simpler by using Save a Copy instead of Save As, but it is still a lot more steps than in InDesign. InDesign has an export to PDF command, and many of the options are sticky. That means setting the file name, destination folder, export format, and PDF options are remembered.

Saving a PDF from Illustrator is a multi-step annoyance than can easily cause you to lose work. Exporting a PDF from InDesign is a breeze and even runs in the background so you can keep working.

Anyway, rant over. Check your PDFs to see if your changes are there. If those PDFs were saved without Illustrator editing capability the Illustrator formatted graphics are unavailable and you'll have to either convert from PDF and merge with the current file or redo the changes.

What's the best plug in to use IGS files with Adobe Illustrator CS3?

This updated plug-in creates layers in Illustrator CS3 that correspond to the layers in the DFX or DWG file and imports the objects in the corresponding layer. However, because of differences in the way layers are treated in Illustrator and AutoCAD, object stacking order may change after importing a DFX or DWG file with this plug-in.

Install this optional plug-in only if you want to maintain the layer hierarchy while opening a DXFor DWG file in Illustrator CS3. This plug-in works for all languages and operating systems that meet the minimum system requirements for Adobe Illustrator CS3.

Installation requirements

To use the DWF/DWG plug-in, you must meet these requirements:

Illustrator CS3 13.0 or greater installed

Mac OS 1.4.8, Mac OS 10.5, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, or Windows Vista

Installation instructions

Download the DFX/DWG plugin.

For Windows, download DxfDwg.aip.

For Mac OS, download AiCS3dfx.dmg.

Quit Illustrator CS3 if it is running.

Mac Only: Mount AiCS3dxf.dmg to access the DxfDwg.aip file.

Navigate to the "Illustrator Formats" folder in the Illustrator CS3 installation folder.

Default location for Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Plug-ins\Illustrator Formats

Default location for Mac OS: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS3/Plug-ins/Illustrator Formats

Please be aware that the path names might be different on your machine if you have installed a non-English version of Illustrator CS3. In this case, please navigate to the appropriate corresponding folder.

Remove the existing DxfDwg.aip file from this folder and move it to another folder outside of the Illustrator application directory. Renaming the file is not sufficient as Illustrator may attempt to load the file regardless of its filename/extension.

Copy the new DxfDwg.aip plug-in to the Illustrator Formats folder.

Start Illustrator CS3.you can follow here.Graphic Design - Graphics Experts Ltd.

Is easier to convert layered Photoshop files or Illustrator files to webpages?

This will largely depend on the tools you will be using to develop the webpage. Photoshop has more web-focussed features, but in most cases, both programs simply serve the purpose of creating design drafts and work out the visual style and layout of the website.

“Converting” either of those documents into a webpage is like converting a drawing of a car into a working one. Even a drawing with lots of detail can't be simply converted into a car. Likewise, building a website from a Photoshop document for the design still requires a lot of new decisions to be made; it doesn't matter what software you use to create the look.

If you are using a tool which will supposedly convert a document into a website, be prepared for strange behaviour and complete lack of editability.

Is there a way or method to add production notes to an Illustrator file?

Righto, even though there is no notes palette (which I'm sure you checked for, because I did too, and honestly that would just be way too easy wouldn't it?) you can add some extra text (metadata) to a file through the File Info [1] command.

This gives you a fairly confusing and intimidating window pop-up with about a million different possible metadata templates which you can all close and leave only the first one - Description. This, to most human beings, provides text inputs for all the info you could possible want to add to a file.

There templates are powered through Extensible Metadata Platform [2] which means that if you really want to, you could make your own metadata templates to suit your needs [3].

[1] File > File Info (second from bottom)
[2] More about XMP here: http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/
[3] XMP Developer centre http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp....

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