Is there a way to import .AI file with layers attached?

Currently when I open .ai file, all the layers are gone. Is there a way to maintain those layers in Photoshop CS4 or CS5?

Don't get your hopes up, depending on the features from your file you could have some or even all your layers flattened, even if you save as a PSD out of Illustrator. The best way to work between Illustrator and Photoshop is to save your Illustrator file as a native .AI file and then import it as a Smart Object in Photoshop using File->Place or File->Open as Smart Object.

Similar Messages

Is there a way to import Raw files into LR catalog ..including..any edits performed in an external raw file editor such as Capture One?

Is there a way to import Raw files into LR catalog ..including..any edits performed in an external raw file editor such as Capture One?
I can import the Raw file successfully but cannot see any edits that were applied in Capture One. Im assuming no but just checking.

Your assumption is correct, Capture One, Lightroom and other third party raw processors have their own proprietary processes and profiles for rendering the raw data.
They do not make permanent changes to the raw data and store the changes to an .xmp file or to a catalog file like Lightroom.

Is there a way to import PDF files?

Hello
I am using RoboHelp HTML Version 5.0.2 and I have encountered problems importing PDF files. I have tried all the various options but they all loose the original format. My PDF files can range from one to five pages. Is there a way to import PDF files?

Check the RoboHelp HTML's help. In the Index, type "import" and select the "PDF files" subentry from the "Importing" entry.
Read the "Importing PDF files" topic; see also the link to "Tips for importing PDF files" in which one of the tips is:
Why is my imported PDF file displaying incorrectly?
PDF files can display certain font families that HTML cannot display. Consequently, in rare instances fonts contained in a PDF document may not convert correctly when imported into HTML.
Good luck,
Leon

Is there a way to Import EPA file using SDM?

Hi,
is there another way to import EPA files in the portal NW04S?
I do not have access to import in the system administration.
Thanks
Jean Seguin

Never tried but, i think SDM does take SDA's also. nevertheless,
import EPA into NWDS as a DC, deploy it to the server through NWDS.
snap....i am sorry, its an EPA file. EPA file can be directly imported in the server and does not require to be through SDM.
Go to Security Admin > Transport > Transport Packages > Import .... and follow the instructions there.
use client / server based on where your EPA file is located. and upload and import.
Regards,
Nitin
Edited by: Nitin Mahajan on Jun 16, 2009 7:04 PM
Edited by: Nitin Mahajan on Jun 16, 2009 7:07 PM

I've imported an iPhoto library from a disc to my iPhoto 09 account, but I have to leave the disc in to view the pictures in full screen... Is there a way to import the files to my hard drive?

I've imported an iPhoto library from a disc to my iPhoto 09 account, but I have to leave the disc in to view the pictures in full screen... Is there a way to import the files to my hard drive?

I've imported an iPhoto library from a disc to my iPhoto 09 account,
What exactly did you do?
Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
A Managed Library, is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing. The files are then stored in the Library package
A Referenced Library is when iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing because you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced. The files are then stored where ever you put them and not in the Library package. In this scenario you are responsible for the File Management.

Is there some way to import image files directly into an open document?

Is there some way of importing a series of image files, say jpegs, directly into an open document, rather than having to open all the image files and having to drag and drop each individual one into the open document? Specifically, I'm a dentist and I often get digital xray images emailed to me from other offices. But they come as 16 or 18 individual image files and I have to put them into a virtual "xray mount", so I can view them all at once, rather than having to open all the images and toggle among them. So I open a blank document in PS (CS4), then I navigate to the folder containing all the image files I received, select all of them and open them all. Back in PS, I now have to select each image tab and drag the image into the blank "mount" and close the image. That new image then becomes its own layer in the "mount" document. But I have to repeat this 18 times for each patient! I was thinking if there was a way to open the new "mount" document then select all the image files and somehow "import" all the image files directly into document - essentially "automate" the process - that'd save me BOATLOADS of time and aggravation! Anyone out there have any suggestions? Thanks alot!! Dr. G.

Thanks, Curt! When u say "animate" do u mean File | Automate...? Inside Automate, I can't find "Make Frames from Layers"...if you do mean "Animate" I can't find that menu. Zeno replied with a BRILLIANT clarification:
<<Yes, but after you've got all your images as layers in a new document you can simply Select->All Layers and then drag them all to your document in one fell swoop.>>
I tried that and it works like a charm! I select all 20 layers in the new document that "stacking" creates and just drag them all onto the virtual "mount" document. That's it! Then I just move each of these layers around as I would otherwise...it's just 1 click and 1 drag/drop. Unless someone comes up with a way to actually "import" all the images directly into the "mount" document, I think this appears to be the most efficient route to follow.
I really appreciate your guys' assistance! It's so great that you guys monitor the forum and help us out with our Photoshop problems! What an awesome program it is, right?
Thx again!
Leon

Is there a way to import .obj files into Motion so that motion can see the object as a 3D object?

I would like to import 3D objects with .obj file extensions into Motion. Is there a plug in or add on that allows you to do this? Is there any way of getting Motion to recognise 3D images? Other programs such as Adobe's After Effects (AE) achieves this easily and allows you to manipulate the image in 3D space.

http://www.motionvfx.com/mplugs-33.html#1
state-of-the-art plugin, just awesome!

Is there a way to import a group of layers in one project in to another project ?

Hi all,
I'm currently using After Effects 5... yes that is version 5, not CS5.
I'm trying to figure out if I can import a group of layers and their applied Effects in to another project while keeping all the editable attributes and the positions of the imported layers with respect to one another.
I see that I can import a AEP project file in to another project via IMPORT FILE, but that just brings the raw layers/files in to the project window and does not place the layers in the timeline with all of their positions, Effects and edited attributes, the way that I'd like.
I also tried Pre-Composing the layers, but that does not leave them editable once a pre-comp has been made... it just makes the 7 layers that I want to import in to another project all one layer and does not leave them editable the way the the 7 layers are separately.
In Adobe Premiere, there is an actual "IMPORT PROJECT" selection under IMPORT that allows me to import an entire project file in to another project and lets me place the imported project where I want in the new project timeline... that is what I'm trying to do in After Effects.
I realize that there may be an easy way to do this in one of the newer versions of After Effects, and one might say, "just buy the new AE CS5", but I figured out allot of things on my own so far and I like After Effects 5 for what I'm doing now... maybe later on the newer version.
Thanks for any input,
digi

Hi Andrew,
No, the two threads that I wrote back to report finding that old 1999 plug-ins package that were removed were...
Cannot find "Caustics" and "Wave World" Effects in After Effects downloads
...origianally at this link, but it is now gone and also missing from my "Discussions" list...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/959158
and
Is there an underwater effect that can be produced in AE 4.1 ?
...originally at this link, and it is also gone and missing from my "Discussions" page...
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4151249
I had saved the links to those threads with bookmarks, but they were removed the day after I posted about finding those plug-ins.
I wanted to get some info from earlier in the thread on one of those and when I went back they both were gone.
I was able to find those two threads by doing a site-webcach search on Google to see if there was a snapshot of each thread in Google's cache... I did find shapshots of those two thread but they were taken the day that I first posted the questions before any replies or subsequent posts by me were posted. Below are the Google cache links to those snapshots of those threads' pages, but as you'll be able to see, it only shows my original questions before all the replies by you and others on the forum and my final report of finding the plug-ins package...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S06cU1F1-C4J:forums.adobe.com/thread/ 959158%3Fstart%3D0%26tstart%3D0+site:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/959158&cd=1&hl=en&ct=c lnk&gl=us
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3dtym60qrHcJ:forums.adobe.com/message /4151249+site:forums.adobe.com/message/4151249&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Having the Adobe forums Gestapo remove those threads is a little like burning old software books... meaning, I guess Adobe just doesn't want people discussing old software downloads, even though I did not post the actual link for the the old "AE 6.0 Bonus Plugin Pack" and "AE 5.5 Power Pack Plug-Ins" that I found. I only reported back on those threads that I found the plug-ins packages after several lengthy Google searches. Since those plug-ins packages were no longer available from Adobe, I thought it was quite a find to be able to track them down elsewhere after all this time. They were 12 and 13 year old plug-ins packages, but they had been posted only in the last couple of years.
Someone else on one of those threads had also told me that AE 6 plug-ins would not work in AE 5, but that turned out to not be true... I don't remember who that was... maybe that was the person who removed my threads because he/she didn't like having a thread that indicated that he/she was wrong.
Anyway, thanks for your info again today... very, very helpful.
digi

Is there a way to open CSV files with more than 255 columns?

I have a CSV file with more than 255 columns of data. It's a fairly standard export of social media data that shows volume of posts by day for the past year, from which I can analyze the data and publish customized charts. Very easy in Excel but I'm hitting the Numbers limit of 255 columns per table. Is there a way to work around the limitation? Perhaps splitting the CSV in two? The data shows up in the CSV file when I open via TextEdit, so it's there. Just can't access it in Numbers. And it's not very usable/useful for me in TextEdit.
Regards,
Tim

You might be better off with Excel. Even if you could find a way to easily split the CSV file into two tables, it would be two tables when you want only one. You said you want to make charts from this data. While a series on a chart can be constructed from data in two different tables, to do so takes a few extra steps for each series on the chart.
For a test to see if you want to proceed, make two small tables with data spanning the tables and make a chart from that data. Make the chart the normal way using the data in the first table then repeat the following steps for each series
Select the series in the chart
Go to Format sidebar
Click in the "Value" box
Add a comma then select the data for this series from the second chart
Press Return
If there is an easier way to do this, maybe someone else will chime in with that info.

Is there any way to open a file with a .msi extension on my new mac?

I have Camtasia from the pc I was using. It has a .msi file extension for the installation file. Is there any way to open the Camtasia installation file with the .msi extension on my new Mac?
Thanks,
Jerry

That's a Microsoft program which requires Windows. You could run on your Mac if you install Windows on it.
Windows on Intel Macs
There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
Install the Apple Boot Camp software. Purchase Windows 7 or Windows 8. Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows. Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
VM Fusion and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows. The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
VirtualBox is a new Open Source freeware virtual machine such as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris. It is not as fully developed for the Mac as Parallels and VM Fusion.
Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system. See MacTech.com's Virtualization Benchmarking for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion. A more recent comparison of Parallels, VM Fusion, and Virtual Box is found at Virtualization Benchmarks- Parallels 10 vs. Fusion 7 vs. VirtualBox. Boot Camp is only available with Leopard and later. Except for Crossover and a couple of similar alternatives like DarWine you must have a valid installer disc for Windows.
You must also have an internal optical drive for installing Windows. Windows cannot be installed from an external optical drive.

Importing PSD files with layers.

Sometimes when I import Photoshop files that have layers,
I can double-click them, and they open as multi-layer sequences where I can control the opacity and blend modes of the layers. Sweet.
But then sometimes they don't, so I have to go back to PS and render .png's of the layers that I want.
So I ask: What am I doing wrong when it doesn't work as expected?
FCP 6.0.6
Best regards;
E.

PSDs from Windows machines will not open up as layers inside FCP. This has been an issue since the first days of CS.
Open those PSDs in Photoshop on a Mac, and then resave as PSD. They will then open up fine in FCP.
Andy

Is there a way to import .svg file as objects into motion

Wondering if I can convert .svg images into .molo files in Motion 5.

The best way is to use InkScape (http://inkscape.org)... it's free... but it runs under X11 (X Windows... basically, unix/linux).
If you don't mind a white background, you can convert anything you can open to PNG (without transparency). Just open the SVG in firefox, safari or chrome. Expand the window to get the largest version of the image possible and type Command-Shift-4. You'll get a target cursor - click and drag around the area you want to capture. A PNG version will be saved to your desktop. [edit: if the image is small to begin with, in FF you can type command- + to increase the size -- as an svg, it will scale smoothly.]
You can try this service: http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/svg2pdf.htm (I've never tried it.) Once you get it converted to PDF, it should import into Motion as .pdf.
There may be other free converters around.

Is there a way to import avi files into imovie

I mean I have big files to import into imovie and they aren't converted.If I use like screenflow,screenium it messes up the quality and it lags.I dont wanna convert them cuz I dont need the whole vid.Just a certain part.So is there a software for mac that can take half of a video and convert a certain part to .mov so I can import it.

thx, it can work.

Is there a way to import .WMA files?

OR how can I copy them to a format that iTunes recognizes?
Thanks.

What Kuzi describes will work on iTunes for Windows, but will not work on a Mac. On a Mac, you can use the conversion program EasyWMA.
Or if you have access to a Windows machine, take your files there (on a flash drive), let iTunes for Windows convert them, then copy the results to your flash drive and from there to your Mac.

Is there a way to import SketchUp files into Keynote?

I want to create an interactive slide rotating a 3D embeded into my Keynote-is there anyway to accomplish this?

Your assumption is correct, Capture One, Lightroom and other third party raw processors have their own proprietary processes and profiles for rendering the raw data.
They do not make permanent changes to the raw data and store the changes to an .xmp file or to a catalog file like Lightroom.

Is there a way to import .AI file with layers attached?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for