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so, i have CS6 on Mac (OS Mavericks).
my Mac took a nose dive recently. long story super short... i have a new mac & re-installed my CS6 on it.
but, in order to launch Illustrator, it requires that i install JAVA too. and i just really don't wanna do that. picky & trivial of me? maybe; but it's a desire i have. and that's a different topic i don't really wish to get in to in THIS thread.
additionally, i've just grown more & more irritated & unhappy with Adobe's apps (also a discussion for a different thread).
so i just thought i'd see if there were any new vector graphics apps out there that could fulfill my needs. the most important of which would be to open my pre-existing .ai files (check: there are several good ones - like Sketch, iDraw, Bluetail, Intaglio, Inkscape, etc) AND be able to directly edit pre-existing text in its layers -BUT- none of them seem to be able to edit text layers (and yes, i have the same fonts). they all appear to open the ai file as a raster image or vector image, but no layers nor editable text.
so i'm just wondering if i've missed something or if it's true - that the proprietary ai format is unusable fully in any other app - or is there one i've missed or a method i failed to find. (?)
thanks much.

The only application that seems to be able to open at least nearly up to date AI files is Corel Draw. It should open CS4 or maybe even CS5.
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