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Computers and Software => Raster and Vector Manipulation Programs, and How to Do Stuff in Them. => Topic started by: Sbrem on March 12, 2015, 04:34:10 PM
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Did a little digging today to figure out how to open a very old Illustrator file with CS6, here's how it works: Open the old file (that just won't open in Illy for you) in a text editor. In your newer version of Illustrator, open a blank page and save it backwards to Illustrator 8 (All of the CS versions up to CS6 will allow that, I don't know about CC). I named mine Old Illy Converter so I could find it later. Now open that in the text editor. Copy the header down to, but not including the bounding box info line, in my example it's the first 7 lines. Now paste that into the old file that's opened in the text editor to replace those same lines, right up to the bounding box line. Save the file, and add a .ai extension to the name. Open it in CS6 (or CS - CS5 I would imagine). It's working for me, so I thought I'd share it with everyone that have given me so much help over the last few years...
Steve
by the way, it works with a .txt extension as well.
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can you open the file in acrobat? I have just the reader and I found out I can open AI files in it, save them as PDF's and import them into corel.
mind-blown. I figured it would open them, but then I figured it would say "oh hey we could save this file for you if you pony up some money and but acrobat PRO."
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I don't own Acrobat, so I do not know. I tried opening with Reader, and saving as a .pdf, but Illustrator still didn't like what was in the header, and gave me an incompatible format message. I actually learned this a few years ago, then completely forgot how to do it. Since I have Illustrator and Freehand files dating back to '92 or so, I needed some way to do this.
Steve