Comment 4 for bug 781246

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

@Alvin - please note that the linked discussion was about exporting to an older, PostScript-based AI format (Adobe Illustator 8.0 and below), not about support for current AI versions (Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and above). The main reason Inkscape can't create native AI files is that the file format is proprietary and the specification is not available as open standard [1].

Ashraf_2003 wrote:
> I'm really tired of not being to take the same chance of those who have Ai

Did you ask Adobe to either fully support open standards or to make the AI format specification publicly available as open standard without any license restrictions? Adobe Illustrator should be able to handle any PDF file created in Inkscape, as well as to import SVG files.

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator_Artwork>