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Anime's vector import fuction

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:21 am
by Virtue
Hi,

I've been trying (and failing) to import vectors from a variety of different programs (Illustrator, Flash and Inkscape) with very mixed results. Nothing I seem to do ever imports properly; either they come in as a garbled mess or the wrong colour with line widths wrong, or just completly crash Anime altogether.

Is there a way to successfully import vectors from a program correctly? or is Animes import tool just really poor at it? Is it really that hard to correctly convert simple vectors?

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:33 am
by Imago
I've attempted many times to import from InkScape to ASP, but never succeed, but Illustrator and Xara XS works fine.
I think there are some incompatibilities in the formats...

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:57 am
by jahnocli
This topic has quite a history, if you search the forum archives. The easiest modus operandi (although you might not want to hear it -- I didn't) is to use AS as a tracer. The nodes on AS lines are different from nodes used in illustration programs, and the translatiion compromises AS has to make result in a lot of extra work when you import vector format files.

Ya just gotta suck it up.

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:28 pm
by patricia3d
Some information is here , but confusing

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