Exporting from CS3 Illustrator

I'm looking to purchase CS3 and will be needing to open and save files down to CS2. Can someone please let me know if CS3 allows for this "down-saving" of native AI files (through exporting I think?)?
Thanks!
K

in the save dialog you are given a choice.
Keep in mind any features that only exist in CS3 may not display correctly in CS2

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Export from Adobe Illustrator to Wissen Castop Plus 99

Hello
We have a DGI Omega OM-130 Plotter. I can only find drivers to run this from Windows XP, using Wissen Castop Plus 99.
While this works for sending flies to plot, the software isn't up to much in making the artwork, so the machine is hard to use.
Ideally we need a way to export files from Adobe Illustrator (MAC) to Wissen Castop Plus 99 which uses WMP or WPF file types.
We have tried the CoCutPro2 plugin for Illustrator, but this only exports HPGL files and I've no idea what they are.
I'd also be open to non-obvious ideas for getting the plotter working with anything other than Win XP, even command line if it will plot any standard file type.
I'd also consider scripting in Illustrator.
thanks.

Whose file formats are WMP & WPF? Have never heard of these unless they are for Windows Media Player & Word Perfect Forms, which are not graphic formats.
What other file formats can Castop Plus 99 accept? Below is form their website.
Designed for compatibility, Wissen Castop Plus 99 includes import filters for 23 different file formats and as an OLE client, your jobs can contain links to work in other OLE server applications.
You should be able to import 23 different file formats. PDF would be great cause you can make a PDF from nay software and bring that into Castop. Does it come with Traceline, that is their software to convert bitmap to vector, so I would assume these WMP & WPF are vector formats.

Exporting from Adobe Illustrator to AutoCad 2009

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I have been working for some time on wood moulding profiles made in Adobe Illustrator, exporting as a 2004 DWG, and inserting as a block in an AutoCad file. I have architects that may use these wood moulding profiles and I have had problems along the way in moving from one program to the other. I have over 500 of these so redrawing them in AutoCad is not a wanted answer really.
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But when I place the DWG file in AutoCad there is nothing there, or just points. Has anyone had any luck bringing an AI DWG file into AutoCad?
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Hi Annie,
Try saving your file to its simplest level that you can before exporting as a DXF. Save it with a new name (to preserve the original file), then flatten layers, outline text, get rid of hidden things. Then try exporting as a DXF. If they can open a DWG, then they should be able to open a DXF.
I used to use a program called CadMover by Kandu Software to move files between Illustrator and AutoCad. But with the newer versions of Illustrator and using the exporting options listed above I haven't needed it.
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Dropping frames in QT export from CS3

I just got CS3 for my PC and I was all excited about the new
feature that lets you export dynamic/actionscripted/MovieClip
content. I do animation targetted at TV, so everything needs to be
rendered to AVI or Quicktime, so I figured that this new feature
would let me use a dynamic camera symbol as I've always wanted to.
I've run into a problem, though: the export process seems to
drop frames! As far as I can tell, Flash is rendering and recording
the frames of the animation in real time (or perhaps just close to
real time). If the computer has any hiccups because of another
process demanding some processor time then the resulting quicktime
will have frozen bits where the renderer couldn't keep up.
You can see what I'm talking about by looking at the
quicktime and an AVI of the same scene here:
http://www.pinkandaint.com/flasherror/bad.mov
http://www.pinkandaint.com/flasherror/good.avi
To test this theory, I tried witching applications a bunch
during a render. Sure enough, there were long sections in the
resulting quicktime where the renderer missed frames. The quicktime
is the right length and number of frames -- it just repeated the
same frame over and over where it couldn't keep up.
That's not the only problem, though. When I look at the
exported quicktime file in either Quicktime Player or Premiere pro
(version 1.5) it reports a framerate significantly lower than in
the original FLA. In the file I'm looking at right now, the FLA's
framerate is listed as 29.97 but the MOV file reports a rate of
19.29 (which is, incidentally, different than the framerate I got
any other time I exported the same scene). In premiere, when I tell
it to interpret the footage as having 29.97 fps the clip gets
significantly shorter than it should be -- in this case 161 frames
rather than the 208 frames that it is in the FLA.
I'm pretty sure this is the same way that the various
SWF-to-video programs do things. I thought it was an interesting
kludge to use those external programs but I was sure Adobe would be
able to do something more elegant and sure-footed with this new
export feature. Couldn't they have somehow guaranteed that each
frame would get captured? It seems like they could have just
modified the Flash player to play with artificial time, where the
time to render each frame was always reported as 1/framerate.
Oh, and there's one more problem. The Quicktime renderer
seems to do something different about the order of execution of
actionscript or something. In the rendered quicktime movie the
first frame displays my camera symbol even though I explicitly made
it invisible with actionscript on the first frame of its timeline.
When displaying in the Flash player the first frame does _not_
display the camera symbol....
Has anyone else encountered these problems? If so, have you
figured out a workaround? I tried setting the framerate really low
(I was at 29.97, so I set it down to 10) but it still seemed to
miss frames.
-David

I can understand your frustration with this feature as it
tries to capture in real time what's being
compiled in the player - but your last line is a bit unfair:
"...it
> exemplifies the Flash team's disregard for animators in
favor of web developers."
Copy Motion and Copy Motion as AS3 are useful new additions
for animators. I will add however that I
myself have a list of animation oriented features I would
love to see added in flash but for now
have you checked out www.flashants.com and their SWF2Video
tool? It exports an SWF to AVI with
flawless results. Worth looking into if you have the need to
output any kind of flash content to video.
Chris Georgenes
Animator
http://www.mudbubble.com
http://www.keyframer.com
Adobe Community Expert
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<---->
animator_geek wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> [...]
> Turn off other applications. When recording, Flash uses
all of your system's
> available resources as much as possible, so any
interference of the system
> performance affects the result of the recording. We
recommend you exit other
> applications while exporting to a video.
>
>
> So you're telling me that Flash makes my computer
completely unusable while
> it's rendering? Sorry, I thought we left that kind of
limitation behind with
> DOS. Particularly for something like this, where the
rendering process should
> be
completely independent of real-time. The renderer should go
exactly
> as fast as it needs to in order to capture every frame.
Whether I set the
> frame rate to 1 or 1000 should make no difference in how
many frames are
> dropped in the rendering process.
No frames should ever be dropped I
> mean, what's going on here? You guys have access to the
actual source code of
> the renderer. Can't you adapt it so that it when it's
rendering non-real-time
> the SWF thinks that it's executing at exactly the frame
rate it desires? You
> could just set the renderer's "clock" to whenever the
render was started, then
> increment it 1/fps seconds every frame. The program
would never be the wiser.
> You could even let the timer run (or simulate it
somehow) for 1/fps seconds
> between rendering each frame, thereby handling any timer
events that need to be
> sent while the SWF is running.
>
> Clearly I'm not privy to the inner workings of the Flash
player but as a user
> there's a certain standard I expect, particularly when a
company touts this
> great new feature. It's supposed to work as advertised.
This feature clearly
> does not.
>
> Now I've been a software engineer in the past and I know
that sometimes
> workarounds have to be made but this is just too much.
To me as a user, it
> exemplifies the Flash team's disregard for animators in
favor of web developers.
>
> -David
>
>
quote:
Turn off audio. The audio in a Flash movie may also slow the
performance
> possibly causing dropped frames. Turn off the audio, if
you have many
> dropped frames in the first attempt. Other video editing
tools can be used
> to add the audio to the video after export.
>
> Reduce frame rate. If the movie dimension is a full size
NTSC video, 740 x
> 480, and frame rate is 30 fps, you are more likely to
have dropped frames.
> Reduce the fps of Flash movie increase the chance of
grabbing all the
> frames. Other video editing tools can be used to adjust
the frame rate of
> the video after export.
>
> Optimize your animation. Try to avoid a lot of screen
motion. The greater
> the area of change on the screen, the more likely
slowdown will occur. Also,
> if possible, restrict your use of transparency and alpha
channels as they
> too can cause poor performance.
>
> Use ActionScript 3. Animation created by ActionScript 2
and ActionScript 3
> are different in play back performance. Convert the
ActionScript in your
> animation to ActionScript 3 for optimized performance.
>
> Dimension settings in 2 places. The dimension settings
in Export Settings
> dialog sets the dimension of the SWF movie to be
captured. The Size settings
> in QuickTime Settings dialog sets the dimension of the
exported MOV files.
> If the SWF size is smaller than the exported MOV size,
the picture quality
> will be degraded; if it is larger than the exported MOV
file, you may have
> better picture quality. For best quality (and often
performance) these
> settings should match.
>
>
>
> "animator_geek" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >I just got CS3 for my PC and I was all excited about
the new feature that
> >lets
> > you export dynamic/actionscripted/MovieClip
content. I do animation
> > targetted
> > at TV, so everything needs to be rendered to AVI or
Quicktime, so I
> > figured
> > that this new feature would let me use a dynamic
camera symbol as I've
> > always
> > wanted to.
> >
> > I've run into a problem, though: the export process
seems to drop frames!
> > As
> > far as I can tell, Flash is rendering and recording
the frames of the
> > animation
> > in real time (or perhaps just close to real time).
If the computer has
> > any
> > hiccups because of another process demanding some
processor time then the
> > resulting quicktime will have frozen bits where the
renderer couldn't keep
> > up.
> >
> > You can see what I'm talking about by looking at
the quicktime and an AVI
> > of
> > the same scene here:
> >
http://www.pinkandaint.com/flasherror/bad.mov
> >
http://www.pinkandaint.com/flasherror/good.avi
> >
> > To test this theory, I tried witching applications
a bunch during a
> > render.
> > Sure enough, there were long sections in the
resulting quicktime where the
> > renderer missed frames. The quicktime is the right
length and number of
> > frames
> > -- it just repeated the same frame over and over
where it couldn't keep
> > up.
> >
> > That's not the only problem, though. When I look at
the exported
> > quicktime
> > file in either Quicktime Player or Premiere pro
(version 1.5) it reports a
> > framerate significantly lower than in the original
FLA. In the file I'm
> > looking at right now, the FLA's framerate is listed
as 29.97 but the MOV
> > file
> > reports a rate of 19.29 (which is, incidentally,
different than the
> > framerate I
> > got any other time I exported the same scene). In
premiere, when I tell
> > it to
> > interpret the footage as having 29.97 fps the clip
gets significantly
> > shorter
> > than it should be -- in this case 161 frames rather
than the 208 frames
> > that it
> > is in the FLA.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this is the same way that the
various SWF-to-video
> > programs do
> > things. I thought it was an interesting kludge to
use those external
> > programs
> > but I was sure Adobe would be able to do something
more elegant and
> > sure-footed
> > with this new export feature. Couldn't they have
somehow guaranteed that
> > each
> > frame would get captured? It seems like they could
have just modified the
> > Flash player to play with artificial time, where
the time to render each
> > frame
> > was always reported as 1/framerate.
> >
> > Oh, and there's one more problem. The Quicktime
renderer seems to do
> > something different about the order of execution of
actionscript or
> > something.
> > In the rendered quicktime movie the first frame
displays my camera symbol
> > even
> > though I explicitly made it invisible with
actionscript on the first frame
> > of
> > its timeline. When displaying in the Flash player
the first frame does
> > _not_
> > display the camera symbol....
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered these problems? If so,
have you figured out a
> > workaround? I tried setting the framerate really
low (I was at 29.97, so
> > I set
> > it down to 10) but it still seemed to miss frames.
> >
> > -David
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>

What file system to use in exporting from cs3 HD

Hi just a quick thank you for the information that I have received from this forum. Being from a small community this service is well appreciated.
My question is that okay so now I want to export my project and I need to know if there is a file system I can save it to, to be able to bring it back into premier if I so choose. The work flow I use in Premier especially with 2hr plus projects, with all the layering, slo mo etc bogs the project down, when I edited sd I would export half as a movie, edited second half and render to movie and combined both files together to create the long movie. In hd I don't understand the file system I could use, I am shooting sony hd hvr z7u shooting 1080i. So what file system and should it be mpeg or h264. Does Premiere support a workable file system.
Thanks
Joan

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Movie exported from CS3 looks 'squished' vertically. Help!

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However, after outputting, the content in the resulting file is appearing too narrow. Otherwise everything is perfect. How can I output a movie file so that the resulting file matches how the project appears in Premiere's preview monitor? Help...
M7adobe

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If my project settings & export settings both match - yet generate a file that is squished in appearance (compared to its appearance within the Premiere monitor); is there an output setting the would either: 1- slightly stretch the file from side to side so that it appears normal; or, 2 - slightly squashes the file vertically so that it appears normal? Or, ideally - how can I confirm that all of the settings are correct so I can simply output a proper looking file without squishing, stretching or squashing. Thank you...
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Im having trouble exporting a file from cs3 to illustrator 6 (an earlier version). Please help.

I have an EPS file that was created with CS3 on a macbook leopard operating system and was saved according to the ( Adobe) instructions to the CD in illustrator 3.
Later I tried to open the CD on a Performa 6200 CD using a macOS 8.1 with Illustrator 6.0. When I opened the CD there was a closed lock on the top left corner of the window, the EPS file icon appeared as a gray paper not looking like your typical illustrator file. I then proceeded to click on the EPS file and a window appeared with this message: "The document "---" could not be opened, because the application program that created could not be found. Could not find a translation extension with appropriate translator".
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I have a series of character designs in Flash built in different symbols, eyes, head, etc. I need to export them to illustrator keeping them vector but when I use the FXG export the file fxg doesn't appear to 'remember' what frame the symbols were referencing and so the image isn't correct...
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Flash Pro CC 2014 (v14.0.0.110) is now available for download via the Creative Cloud App and Adobe website.
We have added SVG Export feature to Flash Pro with this new release. You will now be able to export out vector content from the selected frame as an SVG image that can be opened directly in a Browser and even imported in Adobe Illustrator.
SVG Export option can be accessed via the Publish Settings as well as via File Menu > Export > Export Image option.
Along with this, we have added several new features with this release. Complete list is available at these links:
Overview: https://www.adobe.com/in/products/flash.html
Whats new: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/using/whats-new.html
Release Notes: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/release-note/flash-professional-cc-2014.html
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Transparent edges in psd exported from Illustrator

Hello Community,
I have something going on when I export from Illustrator as a PSD using the artboard. It ends up with a line of transparency around the edges, and is larger than the size of the art exported. It gains about .01 inch around the edges, and when I use 'trim transparent pixels' in Photoshop, it trims it down so it has only gained .07 inches around the edges, but doesn't lose the last line of pixels that are semi-transparent. I am using a script that exports it, then re-imports it and places it in the Illustrator file, effectively swapping the vector for raster. It's part of a larger process I have no control of, so the process is not something I can change, otherwise I wouldn't do that.
Why is it exporting with this line of transparency on the edges? It's causing white lines to show up in the file that it gets reimported to. Until now it was ok because it only shows in the bleed, which gets trimmed off. From now on, though, this process is supposed to be used for non-bleed items, and the white lines are showing up. Attached is a closeup of an example.
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Ok I got it you have two choices to get rid of this problem this is what I found out.
if you export the file with the choice of art optimize or type optimize you will get this antialias artifact if you choose none as the optimize option then you will not get this anti alas artifact since there is no anti alias being applied.
The second choice is to turn on align to pixel grid and then you can export with art or type optimze as an anti alias option and this artifact will not be present.
You have a third option and that is to keeep your optimization options and set the color background shape to align to pixel grid on the object level and not the document level using the align to pixel grid option in the transform panel you have to show options in the transform panel to see this option.
Here is no align to lixel grid with none for optimizing
Here it is with Art Optimized
Here it is with Type Optimized
Here it it with art optimized and align to pixel grid document wide
Here it is with the background object only set to align to pixel grid
I hope this gives you the options you need

PDF exported from InDesign missing background when opened in Illustrator

Hello, I am having a bit of a frustrating problem.
I'm working on graphics for a large project, and I have to get some of my files from InDesign into Illustrator (they are both CS5) for our printer.
I would have normally designed them in Illustrator but ALL my graphics are in InDesign and we just found out once we started on production that he needs AI and needs our trim path set up for our irregular shapes.
For MOST of the documents, its been pretty easy (exporting to PDF > opening in illustrator and making a cut path > saving as AI) however I have this one file that is making me lose my mind.
When I export it as PDF, it opens perfectly and looks normal in acrobat, and I also check it out in preview as well. The background shows up and everything. However when I open the PDF in illustrator it completely loses the background. I noticed it doing this before for a couple graphics, but I assumed that was because they had gradients drop shadows and transparencies and all that. This file has nothing weird except for a gradient grey background.
Help? I'm including some screenshots of whats happening in the hopes that you guys can help solve it.
So here we have me saving it, then opening it in Acrobat to check stuff out.
Now here is what happens when I open it in Illustrator:

Hi, Brie. I have been running into this issue for quite some time now. I also received the same response as you did. "Stop opening exported PDFs in Illustrator." This is an unsatisfactory answer for someone that works in the large format print industry that needs to preflight directly in the Illustrator program. I've done a ton of research and have been racking my brain for the last 2 years and have finally found sufficient workarounds for this issue. The downfall with these workarounds: all spot colors located in the gradients will convert to CMYK mixes. I'm still researching to see if there is a way to keep spot colors intact in these areas.
A little back story: InDesign is converting the gradients into something called NChannel. It enables more accurate handling of color blending by including additional dot gain and color mixing info. Both InDesign and Acrobat have the ability to display these elements whereas Illustrator, from what I’m finding, does not. Which is why we’re seeing gradient elements drop out when opened in Illustrator.
Workaround for CMYK Gradients
Open PDF exported from INDD in Acrobat
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Color Type: DeviceCMYK
Check Embed next to Conversion Profile (should be SWOP)
Expand Document Colors on the right and Select DeviceCMYK in Color Spaces then click ok
Save the PDF
Workaround for 1 Spot Color in Gradients (Converts Spot Color located in Gradient to CMYK – all other Spots stay intact)
Open PDF exported from INDD in Acrobat
Go to Tools > Print Production > Convert Colors
Object Type: Smooth Shade (this tells Acrobat to hone in on Gradients only)
Color Type: Spot Color
Check Embed next to Conversion Profile (should be SWOP)
Expand Document Colors on the right and Select the Spot that is located in the Gradient in Color Spaces then click ok
Save the PDF
Workaround for 2 Spot Colors in Gradients (Converts Spot Colors located in Gradient to CMYK – all other Spots stay intact)
Open PDF exported from INDD in Acrobat
Go to Tools > Print Production > Convert Colors
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Color Type: Spot Color
Check Embed next to Conversion Profile (should be SWOP)
Expand Document Colors on the right and Select the DeviceN spot color that is located in the Gradient in Color Spaces then click ok
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Please try this and let me know if you have any questions! I'm always looking for new problems to solve! Good luck!
- Jenny

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I shoot RAW with a 5d mark2 I export from lr to cs3 in my workflow. I am wanting to create a gallery wrap at an image size of 24x36, when I go to create my negative space my exported image size from Lr is only 8x12, why would that be? I don't know what to do or how to make my image larger without loosing quality? I have never noticed this before? Why is it doing this now?

It will be the settings in your export menu.
clsmithphoto wrote:
I shoot RAW with a 5d mark2 I export from lr to cs3 in my workflow. I am wanting to create a gallery wrap at an image size of 24x36, when I go to create my negative space my exported image size from Lr is only 8x12, why would that be? I don't know what to do or how to make my image larger without loosing quality? I have never noticed this before? Why is it doing this now?
Check this out for how to export: http://tv.adobe.com/search/?q=exporting

Lines too dark in PDF exported from Illustrator

Hi there!
When I export from Illustrator to PDF, all lines in the design looks black, when they are light grey in the original file.
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Did you use Export in Illustrator or the Acrobat process. The Acrobat process would need to have the display resolution and such set to an appropriate setting. If you did the export, then you may have to look at the properties of the export process in Illustrator, not Acrobat.

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