May I open a AI file without losing the lawyers? And an EPS file?

[isd]

I just purchased Affinity. I opened an AI file but I lost the layers. Is there a way to work with Affinity on existing AI files?

 

And EPS files?

[Lee D]

Hi isd,

 

Welcome to the forums.

 

The illustrator files you're opening, do you know if they have been saved with the PDF compatibility option enabled as Affinity will be reading the PDF stream that comes with the .AI file. Another option would be to export your .AI file to PDF with the option to maintain illustrator editability enabled and import this into Affinity.

 

If you're still having issues, you can alway upload a copy of your file here for us to look at.

 

Hope this helps.

 

L

[jmac]

It's very difficult to lose lawyers. It usually requires the presence of other lawyers and 'round and 'round you go.... No disrespect intended ids. Couldn't resist the wordplay.

[isd]

LOL

 

I deserve the joke  :D

 

It's very difficult to lose lawyers. It usually requires the presence of other lawyers and 'round and 'round you go.... No disrespect intended ids. Couldn't resist the wordplay.

[isd]

Hi Lee

 

I didn't get any email notification about your reply. 

 

Thanks for your answer

 

1. I just imported an AI file and it works (I can see the layers)

 

2. The only issue is with framed text. Affinity imports every letter as a separate layer (basically if I write i.e. 10 words over 2 lines in AI, when I import to Affinity they became 120 letters. I have to delete them and re-write the text from scratch). 

Any suggestion to fix point 2?

 

Steve

 

Hi isd,

 

Welcome to the forums.

 

The illustrator files you're opening, do you know if they have been saved with the PDF compatibility option enabled as Affinity will be reading the PDF stream that comes with the .AI file. Another option would be to export your .AI file to PDF with the option to maintain illustrator editability enabled and import this into Affinity.

 

If you're still having issues, you can alway upload a copy of your file here for us to look at.

 

Hope this helps.

 

L

[Dave Harris]

Was the text even text, rather than just curves? If so, then you could try using Favour editable text over fidelity as well as Group lines of text into text frames, in the PDF Options panel when you open the file. The problem is that PDF stores text in short chunks, so Affinity has to try to recombine them into text frames, and those options affect how aggressively it tries that. If AI didn't export the text as text at all, then there's nothing we can do.