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Adobe Illustrator Help Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator
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Illustrator can import many common graphic file formats, including EPS, CorelDRAW
™
,
FreeHand
™
, GIF, JPEG, PICT, TIFF, SVG, DXF, Adobe PDF, and PostScript Level 1. In addition to
these common graphic file formats, Illustrator can use artwork in any file format
supported by an Adobe Photoshop-compatible file format plug-in filter, including Kodak
Photo CD
™
, PNG, and TGA.
File
Format
Import
Methods Considerations
AI Open Opens all Illustrator format files.
EPS Open, Place Placed files may be linked or
embedded.
Adobe PDF Open, Place Specify which page of file you want
to use. Placed files may be linked or
embedded.
Photoshop Open, Place Supports Photoshop 2.5 and later.
Placed files may be linked or embed-
ded. Drag and drop artwork directly
from Photoshop.
SVG/SVGZ Open, Place Illustrator does not support all types
of SVG data; therefore, some data
may be modified during import. For
example, primitives are flattened to
paths, transformations become
transformed paths, and paths with
multiple attributes are converted to
multiple objects.
PICT Open, Place Placed files may be linked or
embedded.
WMF/EMF Open, Place Placed files will be embedded. Drag
and drop artwork directly from
Microsoft Office.
DXF/DWG Open, Place Supports DXF releases 13, 14, and
2000. Placed files will be embedded.
FreeHand Open, Place Supports FreeHand versions 4.0, 5.0,
5.5, 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 (Japanese ver-
sion supported to version 5.5).
Placed files will be embedded.
CorelDRAW Open, Place Supports CorelDRAW versions 5.0,
6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 of
Windows; and versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0,
and 8.0 of Mac OS. Placed files will be
embedded.
CGMOpen, Place Supports CGM versions 1, 2, and 3.
Placed files will be embedded.
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