I tried to import from Adobe Ilustrator CS3 to Corel Draw X5 and certain gradients, probably the most complex ones, get pixelated. Is there a solution to this? I tried exporting in Illustrator to every possible format and then importing to Corel but nothing solved my problem. I'm getting desperate.
Have you tried simply opening the AI file itself in CorelDraw?
You shouldn't need to export at all.
Hi.
Yes, that's what I really meant. I opened the AI file and the pixelation was there. The original file was EPS. It also opened in Corel showing the pixelation...
Gradients do not transport well between formats.
The problem is that there is not actually a postscript object called a gradient. The program that prints or exports has to write some postscript code that simulates the gradient by, effectively, breaking it down into a number of of smaller shapes, each step having a progressively darker uniform fill.
If another program tries to import from the output file, it sees those individual steps but cannot easily tell that they form part of a gradient.
I wouldn't describe that as pixellation though, so it might useful if you could put a small example file (eg a single object with a gradient) somewhere we can take a look at it. But you can't attach AI files in the forum, unfortunately.
froldao said:The original file was EPS.
Ah ... I wonder if you're seeing the EPS image header in that case?
The image header is (or should be) only a placeholder so you can identify the EPS file and scale or position it. But it does not always happen, especially if the EPS file passes through a program that tries to alter the EPS instead of just embedding the postscript code into the output.
What program created that original EPS, and what other programs may have altered / processed that EPS file in the meantime?