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No JPEG or Ai file Formats

Asked by Joseph Panico

I have noticed when attempting to save a file that there is no option to save as a .jpeg or .ai (Adobe Illustrator) format which seems odd. Can you tell me am I missing something, or is there a reason for these options are missing?

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Joe,

from the manual:

"File types supported (a * indicates the author has not tested the file export):

    .ai (Adobe Illustrator). Inkscape v0.46 and earlier supported export to the Adobe Illustrator version 8.0 file format which is a modified form of the EPS level 2 format. This support has been removed since Adobe Illustrator versions 10 (2001) and later can directly import SVG files. This is a better solution as the quality of the AI export was poor. "

You can *import* AI files, though.
Or you could save to pdf, then rename to AI, and probably that works, too (but might loose information).

Inkscape cannot export to the lossy JPG format. This is because it's lossy, mainly, I believe, and because it does not support transparency (which is the default background for images made with Inkscape). png could be considered to be the better option for exporting high quality pictures in times where size doesn't matter so much any more.

You can, however, open your png file with any raster graphics editor (for example, the Gimp: http://gimp.org) , and save it as jpg, loosing transparency and quality.
jpg import works.

If you've got imagemagick installed, this extension may work for you, too (not sure if it is made for non-unix systems...): https://github.com/giacmir/Inkscape-JPEG-export-extension

Kind regards,
 Maren

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