I am still having a problem creating an eps from CD that the client can open. They want to be able to keep it on file for future use, so I downloaded Ghostscript and Ghostview and the Adobe Distiller driver and created a ps file with those and they were able to open that one but not the Corel one. I can however, open the Corel one with Ghostview so is it perhaps an issue between my PC and their Mac?
if you save as older Corel version (or as older Illustrator version) something can change. It's not a safe way. But you can open the PDF with illustrator and save as AI cs3
Yes their Adobe Illustrator CS3 should be able to open a Adobe Illustrator 8 file.
As a side note, (I get they DONT like to have PDF ) a PDF is very good to use when sending back and forth between Coreldraw and Illustrator. (Especially if you have a gradient in an EPS file from Illustrator. To get as uncompressed and sent as PDF). Thing is that they would be able to open the PDF file in illustrator, and then rename it as an Illustrator file, if I am not misstaken myself. That is what I do, I open the PDF files in CorelDRAW and make my changes to a document and save back to either PDF or CorelDRAW .cdr file.But to make it easy for you: yes save as Illustrator 8 file.Oh, you could do, what I would have done, is to send together with the Ai-illustrator file, a PDF as well. (In CorelDRAW Save as PDF). In case they say something is wrong. Then ask them to try open the PDF instead. And rename it from there.
Stefan I am going to take your advice and send a pdf along with the ai file. Since they have Illustrator there is no reason why they should not be able to open and resave it to their own specs.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PERSISTENT HELP
Let us know how it goes!
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