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Re: Adobe Illustrator files

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Paul wrote:

> On 3/31/2023 9:32 AM, Big Al wrote:
>> <https://example-files.online-convert.com/vector image/ai/example.ai>
> 
> At first, I was having trouble convincing myself that was an AI document.
> 
> It looks mostly like a PDF, at the head and tail.

I think the modern "flavour" of AI files are based around PDFs, possibly 
with the same sort of EPS preview thumbnails?

> For the benefit of Andy, one thing I see in the document, is a declaration
> of a "thumbnail". It's possible an SVG conversion tool is latching onto
> the graphic in there and pretending it is the thing needing a (bitmap)
> SVG conversion.

Yes, that's the sort of thing I remember from several decades ago with 
Framemaker/Pagemaker etc.

> One thing I see, is some SVG artwork seems to be a document with
> a bounding box. When they're saved out, the bounding box causes
> the graphic to be rather small. I've seen SVG items in the past,
> that tended to render at absurd scale, and that could be because
> they lacked bounding boxes or other document decorations. Such graphics
> looked like better candidates for pasting into word processors.

I looked at the Adobe site, they do offer an Illustrator trial, but they 
want credit card details up-front, so I'll look at the Affinity trial 
since they're fairly local to me ...
  	

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