Re: [Gimp-user] ai files in gimp

[Alex Vergara Gil <alexvergaragil gmail com>]

Hello, thanks for your answers, what I need is to take some figures
from an ai file and insert them into my gimp project, i am not very
familiar with inkscape, i dont get done my things, gimp on the other
hand is great for this.

regards
Alex

2015-12-01 17:32 GMT-05:00, Gez <listas ohweb com ar>:
> El mar, 01-12-2015 a las 15:21 -0500, Alex Vergara Gil escribió:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Is there a way of importing ai files into gimp? I know i canuse them
> > in inkscape but i need to insert some figures in my project, i need
> > them to be very resolutive but converting them to png is not what i
> > expect, results are a disaster. Any hints?
>
> It's not clear what you need to do. Do you need to insert figures into
> your AI file, or do you need to take some figures from the AI and use
> them in your GIMP project?
>
> Gimp should be able to import ai files since they are based on PDF
> (from illustrator 10). If it doesn't, try to rename your file.ai to
> file.pdf and try again.
>
> Note, however, that importing them into GIMP will result in the
> rasterization of the vector shapes (turning them into bitmap images).
> If you want to keep them as vectors, GIMP is not the program you want.
> Also, if you want to keep the shapes separated from the background,
> rasterization could be a problem too.
>
>
> hth,
>
> Gez.