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Offline Prosperi-Tees

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Can someone check out this .ai file?
« on: September 13, 2011, 12:00:39 AM »
A customer of mine sent me an ai file which I thought I could open in Corel X4. It is giving me an error message and cant import into X4. I thought I was able to open ai files, maybe im wrong, or maybe the file is not setup right.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2011, 12:52:25 AM »
The error message is probably telling you to un-compress it first, right?
That's the one I usually get. Most Illy users don't even know that their files are compressed by default.
Someone here will either un-compress it or to be safe, usually I get a pdf or eps version.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2011, 01:09:28 AM »
Actually its saying "an error occured while processing and the file cannot be opened" hopefully my customer has a different file.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2011, 01:10:45 AM »
that's one I haven't gotten yet.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2011, 09:13:51 AM »
If it is a compressed .ai file, Corel will not be able to open it up. When they save the file, tell them to un-check the compression option.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2011, 09:49:53 AM »
Quote from: Prosperi-Tees on September 13, 2011, 01:09:28 AM
Actually its saying "an error occured while processing and the file cannot be opened" hopefully my customer has a different file.

Or hope they will not take their file to a shop that can accept their file as is....We should never make our lack of the proper software to do the job, our client's problem....
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2011, 10:37:56 AM »
It was probably created in a newer version of Illie and corel cannot open it.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2011, 12:33:31 PM »
if you send it my way I can take a look.

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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2011, 04:13:29 PM »
Did you get this resolved? I'm converting these for folks all the time just did some for Fluid!
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2011, 05:45:08 PM »
I have not got it resolved yet, a couple people emailed me last night so I am hoping they will be able to open it, Thanks guys.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2011, 05:50:36 PM »
just send it to digitalcrap@artelf2xs.com   I'll do it right now!
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2011, 05:56:29 PM »
Quote from: Artelf2xs on September 13, 2011, 05:50:36 PM
just send it to digitalcrap@artelf2xs.com   I'll do it right now!
On its way, Thanks!
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2011, 06:33:59 PM »
Allright, this file is Jacked....... All the CS from 1-5 tell me both this is Legacy..... Prior to the CS versions and that there is an offending error.....
I have the older versions at home but..... I tried several programs that crack open graphics files.....

I did get it to open in CS 3   the file is is a placed jpeg or bitmap bigger then the illy working space with a little bit of it in a clipping path...

Looks like this.... Good luck with this one.

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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2011, 10:46:32 PM »
Lol. man my customer had his graphic designer do that to , hmmm. Ill get it figured out, Thanks for everyones help.
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Re: Can someone check out this .ai file?
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2011, 09:03:41 AM »
I believe the art board is set up for to be sign sized.  I opened it in FlexiSign and said there were open paths and asked if I wanted to close them.  There is some vector stuff that you can't see on the art board in illy that shows up at full size in Flexi.  But yeah, it's still jacked lol.
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