What format do I save a path drawn in Photoshop/Illustrator to?

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# 1 31-01-2004 , 10:42 PM

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What format do I save a path drawn in Photoshop/Illustrator to?

I've tried importing curves drawn in Illustrator and Photoshop using various file formats (i.e. EPS, DXF, DWF, etc.) with no success.

What should I be doing here?

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# 2 31-01-2004 , 11:13 PM

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I believe a normal illustrator file should work. .ai files.

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# 3 31-01-2004 , 11:35 PM

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I "seemed" to have imported it. But, now I cannot see it. It shows as "AI9_BLK1" in Outliner but I can't see the shape in the view panel.

I scaled it up to 400+ but still nothing. Is there a specific visibility control I have to set somewhere for AI files to show?

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# 4 31-01-2004 , 11:36 PM

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No, it imports them as curves. Note that only drawn lines from Illustrator will import. Filled colors and such won't.

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# 5 01-02-2004 , 12:20 AM

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Well, again it "seems" to have imported the AI file. But, I cannot see it. It shows in the Outliner, but I cannot see it in the view panel. I've scaled it up and yet it shows nowhere.

What's missing?

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# 6 01-02-2004 , 12:34 AM

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couldn't say. Could be an error with the illustrator file.

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# 7 01-02-2004 , 12:39 AM

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Try exporting as an illustrator .ai file and you maye need to save as an older format, perhaps illustrator 8. What version are you running?

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# 8 01-02-2004 , 02:06 AM

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Version 9.0
I will try the v8.0 approach, and see what happens.

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# 9 01-02-2004 , 02:13 AM

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I think version 9 format is ok, i think 10 had issues and that was with maya 4.5. When you export do you have options to turn off Create PDF Compatible File and Use Compression? I know this option is in Iluustrator CS and both should be turned off. Read this on some other forum somewhere.

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