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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: ALEXMIAMI305 on May 29, 2018, 08:15:06 AM

Title: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: ALEXMIAMI305 on May 29, 2018, 08:15:06 AM: Hi everyone.

I am wondering if anyone uses an awesome free SVG to Illustrator online...

I have a copy of Illustrator CS2 that I got for free like everyone else. LOL I have tried to save the Inkscape (0.92.3) SVG then open it with Adobe Illustrator so that I can then save it as an AI and when I open it, it is all jacked up...

So then I tried finding an online converter and tried online-converting.com and also convertio.co and they did convert them but when I tried opening what was converted with Inkscape, it gave me an error "failed to load the requested file..." I know some people, clients, places only want AI extensions on their files. I am have tried it on my Windows 7 Laptop and my Windows 10.

Any help, advice, etc. would appreciated. Thanks.
Title: Re: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: Moini on May 29, 2018, 02:53:35 PM: File > Save a Copy... > select file type: pdf.
Title: Re: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: Moini on May 29, 2018, 02:55:21 PM: And then rename to .ai, or open with Illustrator and save as .ai. This will convert any filters to raster representations, though.
Title: Re: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: brynn on May 30, 2018, 02:19:28 PM: Welcome to the forum!

You could try saving as Plain SVG in Inkscape, instead of Inkscape SVG. I don't know if that would help, but can't hurt to try.
Title: Re: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: ALEXMIAMI305 on May 30, 2018, 05:40:01 PM: Thanks for the welcome!

OK so Moini I tried what you suggested and it did not open in my Adobe Illustrator....the file looked blank. It was so weird. It did save as a PDF and it did save as an AI by changing the file extension. I did get to open both the AI and PDF in Inkscape and they were visible, I just could not confirm it on Adobe Illustrator but the AI file extension did take. Thanks.

Also, thanks brynn...btw, what is the difference between plain SVG and Inkscape SVG?
Title: Re: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: brynn on May 30, 2018, 06:13:55 PM: Quote from: ALEXMIAMI305 on May 30, 2018, 05:40:01 PM
Also, thanks brynn...btw, what is the difference between plain SVG and Inkscape SVG?

Here's an FAQ item which explains that: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#what-inkscape-svg-opposed-plain-svg

To be honest, it might not help you at all. But it would be easy to try. If you're worried, you could make a copy of your file, to save as Plain SVG. I guess you probably want to keep a backup anyway though.
Title: Re: Best SVG to Illustrator converters...
Post by: Moini on May 30, 2018, 06:34:54 PM: There must be something in your pdf that Illustrator doesn't understand, then... Which is enormously weird. Can you share a small example file?