Adobe Illustrator - Which brings me to the question

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Which brings me to the question

steggy

2005-09-22, 11:14 pm

Just curious.

Can anyone explain to me why Illustrator and Acrobat (PDF
that is) work so well together?

For instance: a colleague of mine made something for private
use at work, CS2. She could not open it at home on Illy 9
(yeah what do you expect). So I showed her what happened if
you saved it as a PDF, it opens up with all vector points
back in Illustrator (hopefully on her old Illy also, did not
hear back yet).

Ehat is the reason that that works so smoothly?
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steg

Laura K

2005-09-22, 11:14 pm

steggy <steggy2001@hotmail.com> wrote in news:4333253B.CA14898@hotmail.com:

> Just curious.
>
> Can anyone explain to me why Illustrator and Acrobat (PDF
> that is) work so well together?
>
> For instance: a colleague of mine made something for private
> use at work, CS2. She could not open it at home on Illy 9
> (yeah what do you expect). So I showed her what happened if
> you saved it as a PDF, it opens up with all vector points
> back in Illustrator (hopefully on her old Illy also, did not
> hear back yet).
>
> Ehat is the reason that that works so smoothly?

Because starting with AI9, the underlining programming on Illustrator was
changed, in a manner of speaking, from EPS to PDF.
Paul Asente explained this in a post in the Illustrator newsgroup a couple of
years ago -- showing the evolution of Illustrator from the first version to
AI9. I carefully saved the post but have no idea where I put it.
A google newsgroup search might turn it up.
If I find it, I'll post it.

toby

2005-09-22, 11:14 pm

Laura K wrote:
> steggy <steggy2001@hotmail.com> wrote in news:4333253B.CA14898@hotmail.com:
>
>
> Because starting with AI9, the underlining programming on Illustrator was
> changed, in a manner of speaking, from EPS to PDF.

The document format changed, yes. Adobe decided we all should be using
PDF everywhere. A transition that was difficult to miss, because it
wasn't particularly smooth. The older text format (a flavour of
PostScript, i.e. EPS-compatible) was very reliable. Just not PDF. Then
again, PDF isn't EPS, so you win some and you lose some.

> Paul Asente explained this in a post in the Illustrator newsgroup a couple of
> years ago -- showing the evolution of Illustrator from the first version to
> AI9. I carefully saved the post but have no idea where I put it.
> A google newsgroup search might turn it up.
> If I find it, I'll post it.

steggy

2005-09-23, 7:15 pm

toby wrote:
>
> Laura K wrote:
>
> The document format changed, yes. Adobe decided we all should be using
> PDF everywhere. A transition that was difficult to miss, because it
> wasn't particularly smooth. The older text format (a flavour of
> PostScript, i.e. EPS-compatible) was very reliable. Just not PDF. Then
> again, PDF isn't EPS, so you win some and you lose some.
>

Sorry Laura and Toby........

I found the post of Paul (thanks Laura).

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steg