Illustrator in Freehand

[ah_oi]

Hi All....
I have a big problem... i dun seems to be able to open my illustrator cs file
in my freehand mx... it says like not an editable eps file..though i have tried
to export as eps..it also does not work..I have to urgently save the file into
freehand as the end product requested by the printer has been chaned to
freeehand... i also need it to be editable in freehand..i can change the text
etc... having a lot of problems now... Have tried to export the illustrator
file into lower illustrator version, etc 9..but it breaks up the text into one
alpabetic by itself...

Pls help...thkssssssss

[Rich Hudgins]

In Illustrator CS save it as an Illustrator 8 ".ai" file (not
Illustrator 8 EPS). Then open in FH.

Rich

ah_oi wrote:

> Hi All....
> I have a big problem... i dun seems to be able to open my illustrator cs file
> in my freehand mx... it says like not an editable eps file..though i have tried
> to export as eps..it also does not work..I have to urgently save the file into
> freehand as the end product requested by the printer has been chaned to
> freeehand... i also need it to be editable in freehand..i can change the text
> etc... having a lot of problems now... Have tried to export the illustrator
> file into lower illustrator version, etc 9..but it breaks up the text into one
> alpabetic by itself...
>
> Pls help...thkssssssss
>

[ah_oi]

Sorry..still having another problem..when i export to freehand 8, the sentence breaks up into letter by letter..makin editing very difficult..if there any way to solve it?

[Wes Rand]

You can try saving in an older format to see if that has better luck: Illustrator 7 or 5.5. What you describe sounds more like what I get when I import a PDF into Freehand.

[Danny Whitehead]

Illustrator CS doesn't 'save' down anymore, but you can export (like
Freehand) as 'Illustrator Legacy'. The only options it gives you though,
are versions 10, 9, 8 and 3. The problem ah_oi is having is caused by
the fact that Illustrator CS has a completely new type engine, with all
those nice OpenType features from InDesign. When you save down to any
legacy version, it puts every single character in its own container.
You'll get the same results even if you export to and open in AI10. It's
all explained here:

[url]http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@145.ACmTclhLr2o.1@.2ccdcea3/0[/url]

I don't think there's any way of getting a AICS file into Freehand (or
any older versions of AI for that matter) with fully editable text.


Danny

[Wes Rand]

Danny Whitehead wrote:

> I don't think there's any way of getting a AICS file into Freehand (or
> any older versions of AI for that matter) with fully editable text.
>
>
> Danny

That's distressing to hear as we're going to being having CS rolled out
at our place in the near future. Can an older version of Illustrator
open the file in a nicely text editable form? Maybe we should hang on to
the older version of Illustrator as well if that could solve it.

-Wes

[Danny Whitehead]

Wes Rand wrote:

> Can an older version of Illustrator
> open the file in a nicely text editable form?

Unfortunately not. That longwinded post I linked to on the Adobe forum
explains it all in detail.

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Danny

[Odysseus]

In article <c6llh2$2c4$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
Danny Whitehead <danny@dontsendspamtobqprint.co.uk> wrote:

> Wes Rand wrote:
>

> > Can an older version of Illustrator
> > open the file in a nicely text editable form?

>
> Unfortunately not. That longwinded post I linked to on the Adobe forum
> explains it all in detail.

One trick I've found to work sometimes in Illustrator is to select a
number of the 'fragmented' blocks of text (it's usually a PDF or a
QuarkXPress EPSF I'm dealing with) with a selection tool, Copy (or Cut),
then click with the text tool in an empty area and Paste. The pieces
will be reunited in a single item, usually in the correct order --
although some word-spaces may be skipped over, needing manual
replacement. It would be tedious doing this for a very large quantity of
text, but I've had reasonable success reconstructing a paragraph or two
in this manner.

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Odysseus