opening illustrator 10 files in CS

[claven]

anyone ever encounter problems with this?

[Scott]

Text.. watch your text. And You will NOT be able to go back to v10 with great text.

The text engine in AICS changed to the same engine Indesign uses. This means legacy text must be updated when opening legacy files. You can choose to not update (you'll be presented with a dialog box). Not updating text means it may be converted to outlines or rather, the outline data will be used for outpout. If you update the text, in some cases this results in altered kerning, letter spacing and tracking. Double check all of that in your file after opening it.

Then... to go back to a legacy version you'll have to use File > Export. The text from AICS may be broken into blocks of point text at this point.

if you use a lot of text in Illustrator you really will want to do a little testing so you can familiarize yourself with how it's going to be effected.

Other than that... I've had no problems with standard art files.

[claven]

That's really good to know jolt, thanks.

i have a weird issue going on. I'm transferring files to an outside vendor. they open fine here but not there. sfter some experimenting, they were able to open the files on an old vrsn of illustrator but not in cs. the message they got was "acrobat pdf file format is having difficulties, expected a non-negative integer".

All my text is converted to paths and i even tried a cleanup (which told that there were no stray text boxes). Weird thing is though, that my font management program flashes when i open the files (like its loading a font)?????

Oh, well. its moot now anyway, but unresolved errors and stuff really bother me.

[Scott]

The pdf thing in my experience is due to a corrupt font or font cache... like helvetica, arial, or some other standard system font. That would also be indicated by the blinking font manager. On the Mac you can search for AdobeFn[xx].pdf files and delete them. They are temporary caches used somewhere for something. They will get rebuilt automatically after deletion. [xx] will be a number value. I'm not certain this will help with a PC.

[claven]

PC? we don't use no stinkin' PC's :)

Actually, we do, but this scenario is all about the macs

[claven]

I have about 400 "AdobeFnt.lst" files but no ".pdf's"???

[Scott]

yeah those.. sorry.. delete those. They'll be rebuild as needed. They can get corrupt.