Midnight Design Posted June 9, 2019 Posted June 9, 2019 I was looking on 99designs, wondering if I should join a contest. I looked at one of them and they require a .Ai file along with a .EPS file. I found an online converter: Convert.io, but they don't support .Afdesign files. Another website 'supposedly' claimed that they have software to convert it, but it wasn't very useful (it had some links that lead to the same page). Does anyone know how to convert a .Afdesign file to a .Ai file without losing any quality? Thanks, Midnight Design Quote
Staff Callum Posted June 10, 2019 Staff Posted June 10, 2019 11 hours ago, Midnight Design said: I was looking on 99designs, wondering if I should join a contest. I looked at one of them and they require a .Ai file along with a .EPS file. I found an online converter: Convert.io, but they don't support .Afdesign files. Another website 'supposedly' claimed that they have software to convert it, but it wasn't very useful (it had some links that lead to the same page). Does anyone know how to convert a .Afdesign file to a .Ai file without losing any quality? Thanks, Midnight Design As far as I'm aware there is no way to do this. I wouldn't trust any websites that say they can either as we haven't released the specs of our file format. Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
Alfred Posted June 10, 2019 Posted June 10, 2019 11 hours ago, Midnight Design said: Does anyone know how to convert a .Afdesign file to a .Ai file without losing any quality? Although you can’t export to AI format from Affinity Designer, you can export to PDF and then rename the exported file from *.pdf to *.ai. As far as I’m aware, Adobe Illustrator should be able to open the resultant file without any major issues. Midnight Design 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Midnight Design Posted June 10, 2019 Author Posted June 10, 2019 5 hours ago, Alfred said: Although you can’t export to AI format from Affinity Designer, you can export to PDF and then rename the exported file from *.pdf to *.ai. As far as I’m aware, Adobe Illustrator should be able to open the resultant file without any major issues. Thank you! Alfred 1 Quote
scatterbrain73 Posted November 7, 2019 Posted November 7, 2019 On 6/10/2019 at 6:16 AM, Alfred said: Although you can’t export to AI format from Affinity Designer, you can export to PDF and then rename the exported file from *.pdf to *.ai. As far as I’m aware, Adobe Illustrator should be able to open the resultant file without any major issues. Eh, not so much. I just tried it and it rasterized a good chunk of my file. The main issue was anything with effects applied to it. For instance, in Designer I had a bunch of objects grouped together and applied an outline effect to the group. Saved it as a PDF, then opened the PDF in Illustrator. The group was rasterized. Went back into Designer, removed the outline effect, and tried it again. This time the objects remained as vectors. So... in short, yes and no. You can do it but if you want to preserve all your vector paths you first have to remove all effects from objects. An incredible pain, I know, but it can save you from having to start completely over. Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 7, 2019 Posted November 7, 2019 29 minutes ago, scatterbrain73 said: ... in short, yes and no. You can do it but if you want to preserve all your vector paths you first have to remove all effects from objects. An incredible pain, I know, but it can save you from having to start completely over. To some extent that may depend on the PDF export options you choose. And to some extent you may find that the rasterization would occur with any of the vector output formats, not just PDF. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Alfred Posted November 13, 2019 Posted November 13, 2019 On 11/7/2019 at 6:53 PM, scatterbrain73 said: ... in short, yes and no. You can do it but if you want to preserve all your vector paths you first have to remove all effects from objects. An incredible pain, I know, but it can save you from having to start completely over. On 11/7/2019 at 7:25 PM, walt.farrell said: To some extent that may depend on the PDF export options you choose. And to some extent you may find that the rasterization would occur with any of the vector output formats, not just PDF. It’s actually nothing to do with the PDF export options. Like their predecessors in Serif’s ‘Plus’ range, the Affinity apps always render filter effects as raster, so if you want a vector outline you need to apply one or more strokes instead of using an outline effect. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
ashf Posted November 13, 2019 Posted November 13, 2019 Rasterization can't be helped anyway. But Vectornator can convert its file to ai using Creative Cloud. So you can convert pdf or svg to ai by importing them to Vectornator. Quote
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