Corel Painter Help | Acquiring and exporting Adobe Illustrator shapes

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To acquire shapes from Adobe Illustrator

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To export shapes to Adobe Illustrator

Acquiring and exporting Adobe Illustrator shapes

Corel Painter lets you work with shapes that were created in Adobe Illustrator and saved to the AI format (version 3 or earlier). You can also export shape data to the Adobe Illustrator (AI) format.

Exporting to the AI format saves only the shapes, not the canvas or any other layers in the document. Transparency and compositing methods are lost when shape data is exported to the AI format.

If both Corel Painter and Adobe Illustrator are running on your computer, you can copy content from Adobe Illustrator and paste it in Corel Painter.

To acquire shapes from Adobe Illustrator

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Before acquiring the shape in Corel Painter, you need to ensure that the AI file was saved as Adobe Illustrator version 3 or earlier.

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In Corel Painter, choose File

Acquire

Adobe Illustrator File.

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In the Adobe Illustrator File dialog box, select the Adobe Illustrator file, and click Open.

Adobe Illustrator layers are supported in Corel Painter, but several Adobe Illustrator shape elements, such as patterns, placed images, gradients, masks, and text are not supported. If the file includes text, you must convert text to outlines when saving the file.

To export shapes to Adobe Illustrator

1

Choose File

Export

Adobe Illustrator File.

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In the Export as Illustrator File dialog box, specify a location and filename, and click Save.

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