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About imported artwork


    Placing artwork from other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, into Adobe Illustrator is easily performed using various Adobe Illustrator commands.

    Illustrator can import many common graphic file formats, including EPS, CorelDRAW, FreeHand, GIF, JPEG, PICT, TIFF, SVG, DXF, Adobe PDF, and PostScript Level 1. In addition to these common graphic file formats, Illustrator can use artwork in any file format supported by an Adobe Photoshop-compatible file format plug-in filter, including Kodak Photo CD, PNG, and TGA.

    File Format

    Import Methods

    Considerations

    AI

    Open

    Opens all Illustrator format files.

    EPS

    Open, Place

    Placed files may be linked or embedded.

    Adobe PDF

    Open, Place

    Specify which page of file you want to use. Placed files may be linked or embedded.

    Photoshop

    Open, Place

    Supports Photoshop 2.5 and later. Placed files may be linked or embedded. Drag and drop artwork directly from Photoshop.

    SVG/SVGZ

    Open, Place

    Illustrator does not support all types of SVG data; therefore, some data may be modified during import. For example, primitives are flattened to paths, transformations become transformed paths, and paths with multiple attributes are converted to multiple objects.

    PICT

    Open, Place

    Placed files may be linked or embedded.

    WMF/EMF

    Open, Place

    Placed files will be embedded. Drag and drop artwork directly from Microsoft Office.

    DXF/DWG

    Open, Place

    Supports DXF releases 13, 14, and 2000. Placed files will be embedded.

    FreeHand

    Open, Place

    Supports FreeHand versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 (Japanese version supported to version 5.5). Placed files will be embedded.

    CorelDRAW

    Open, Place

    Supports CorelDRAW versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 of Windows; and versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 of Mac OS. Placed files will be embedded.

    CGM

    Open, Place

    Supports CGM versions 1, 2, and 3. Placed files will be embedded.

    All raster formats supported by Photoshop-compatible filters

    Open, Place

    Supports the following formats: Amiga IFF, BMP, Filmstrip, GIF 89a, Kodak Photo CD, JPEG, PCX, Pixar, PNG, TIFF, and TGA.

    Text formats

    Open, Place

    Supports the following formats: plain text, MS RTF, MS Word 97, 98, and 2000. Vertical Japanese text in RTF and Word files will be imported as horizontal text. Placed files will be embedded.