Copy and Paste from Illustrator

[Rg.]

Hi.

When copying from Illustrator CS and pasting into Freehand MX, the copied
vector changes? points are added and the edges become squared off? I have tried
saving the ICS doc in a lower version (8,9,10) but the problem persists.
This even happens on such simple object as a circle? does anyone no how to fix
this problem or have a way around it.

Can ayone help. I receive quite a lot of artwork in Illustrator that i would
like to use in FHMX

thanks. RG.

[Rich Hudgins]

Stop copying and pasting. Take the AI8 document and import it into FH.
Should work fine.

Rich

Rg. wrote:

> Hi.
>
> When copying from Illustrator CS and pasting into Freehand MX, the copied
> vector changes? points are added and the edges become squared off? I have tried
> saving the ICS doc in a lower version (8,9,10) but the problem persists.
> This even happens on such simple object as a circle? does anyone no how to fix
> this problem or have a way around it.
>
> Can ayone help. I receive quite a lot of artwork in Illustrator that i would
> like to use in FHMX
>
> thanks. RG.
>

[Mac4me]

Import to Freehand? R u saying Export to FreeHand. Anyway, I'm using ai 10, I
dun seem to be able to export it Freehand becos when I click to export, there
isn't anything that says FreeHand....Could you help? I'm facing the same
problem as I work better with Freehand rather than ai.

The file i got from my customer is a PDF and I was able to convert it to ai10.
But as usual, I try to convert it to FreeHand, it says 'Couldn't convert the
Document Because the root object ( catalog dictionary ) is missing or invalid.
What does this mean ? Please help?

[Wes Rand]

Mac4me wrote:

> Import to Freehand? R u saying Export to FreeHand. Anyway, I'm using ai 10, I
> dun seem to be able to export it Freehand becos when I click to export, there
> isn't anything that says FreeHand....Could you help? I'm facing the same
> problem as I work better with Freehand rather than ai.

Export the Illustrator file as a version 8 or earlier and it should open
up in Freehand.

>
> The file i got from my customer is a PDF and I was able to convert it to ai10.
> But as usual, I try to convert it to FreeHand, it says 'Couldn't convert the
> Document Because the root object ( catalog dictionary ) is missing or invalid.
> What does this mean ? Please help?
>

Can you open up the PDF directly in Freehand?

[Mac4me]

Sorry I miss out 1 important point, I 'm using Freehand 10 and trying to
convert ai 10 to FH 10.

Ok ...this is wat I have actually done.....I got this pdf file from client. As
usual try to convert it to FH10 but was unable so I click file then drop onto
the ai10 application and the file open and every elements is there. So usually
I would drag and drop this file on FH 10 application , it opens up but more
like an EPS and not editable......

Then I try another way by exporting it back to pdf......then drag & drop on FH
10, as expected, the file open but content is all in a mess.....pictures are
missing, color and graduation tone is gone expect for text and line work is
still there but color is wrong......


So wat is the problem?

[James E. Talmage]

> So wat is the problem?

Do you have AI/EPS turned on in your FH clipboard import prefs?
Also check your AI clipboard Copy As prefs and make sure both PDF and AICB
(preserve paths) are on.

JET

[Rich Hudgins]

FreeHand will open AI files version 8 and older. What I told you was to
Import INTO not Export TO. You can also just open the AI8 (or older)
file from FH's open command. Just make sure that it is a true AI file
and not an AI EPS file.

Rich

Mac4me wrote:

> Sorry I miss out 1 important point, I 'm using Freehand 10 and trying to
> convert ai 10 to FH 10.
>
> Ok ...this is wat I have actually done.....I got this pdf file from client. As
> usual try to convert it to FH10 but was unable so I click file then drop onto
> the ai10 application and the file open and every elements is there. So usually
> I would drag and drop this file on FH 10 application , it opens up but more
> like an EPS and not editable......
>
> Then I try another way by exporting it back to pdf......then drag & drop on FH
> 10, as expected, the file open but content is all in a mess.....pictures are
> missing, color and graduation tone is gone expect for text and line work is
> still there but color is wrong......
>
>
> So wat is the problem?
>

[Unregistered]

Hi there, if you are working on a mac, export the illustrator document to macintosh pict (pct) and you can place it in freehand