[Layer Names gets lost when importing Adobe Illustrator file]

On 12/2/2021 at 12:21 PM, Lagarto said:

Your file seemed to be a PDF file with an OCG layer (= Acrobat Layer = layer that Affinity can read)

Illustrator can export only top layers as OCG layers, deeper levels are lost. AI saves in AI format its native layers, and can save them also in PDF and EPS files, but in these file formats the layer structure is available only to Adobe apps.

The same applies to Affinity apps, only the top layers will be exported as OCG layers ("Include Layers" must be checked in the PDF Export options to enable that). Illustrator (at least CS6) does not read back these layers (even ones saved by InDesign), probably because it can use its native layers that have been saved in PDF, EPS and AI files.

SVG supports exhange of layer information, but I think that Illustrator does not read SVG layers (at least CS6 version does not).

I do not think that there is any useful way to exchange layer information between Adobe and Affinity (any non-Adobe) apps.

Thanks for the deep analysis and the explanation, even so it does not solve my Problem 😞 I will need to work this around somehow...

But at least I know that there is not something wrong or defect.

 

[Layer Names gets lost when importing Adobe Illustrator file]

Hi @MEB, @Joachim_L

did you had any chance to look at the example file?

best regards

joerg

[Layer Names gets lost when importing Adobe Illustrator file]

Hello Joachim, Hello MEB,

sorry it took a little bit longer. Now I got a test file together with a screenshot of the layer names in Illustrator. If I open this AI file in Designer, only the top layer names gets shown, all layer names below get lost.

best regards

joerg

TEST-211012.ai

[Layer Names gets lost when importing Adobe Illustrator file]

Hello Joachim, Hello MEB,

thanks for the really quick answers. I can not share the current file as it is high confidential design data. But I will request a test file from the customer.

Thanks 

Joerg

[Layer Names gets lost when importing Adobe Illustrator file]

Hello Affinity Community,

I am currently struggeling with an import of an Adobe Illustrator file. We receive from a customer a file which has been created in Adobe Illustrator and saved as PDF compatible. When I want to import that file in Affinity Designer everything seems to look fine, but there is one issue all Layername gets lost during import. 

Is there a ways to preserve the layer names during import?

Best regards

joerg