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> I just wish it could properly injest .AI files. For me, it's the only non-Illustrator app that I tried that didn't mangle them too much (visually speaking).

> I just wish it could properly injest .AI files. For me, it's the only non-Illustrator app that I tried that didn't mangle them too much (visually speaking). I had tried so many free and non-free (but inexpensive) apps on Mac and Windows that would have so many problems with .ai files. Once I would load them into an app, the would look nothing like I expected them to. My use case for .ai files is usually to simply convert them to svg or emf to be able to insert them into documents. Thankfully I didn't have a need to edit them, because it sounds a little nightmarish from your experience.

c0nsumer 7y ago
That's very true and a good point. It does load them fine, and they are usable. Just... Not good for editing. For a specific example, check out this: http://www.cramba.org/storage/maps/pontiaclake/CRAMBA_Pontiac_Lake_17-Jun-2014.pdf http://www.cramba.org/storage/maps/pontiaclake/CRAMBA_Pontia... In the original .AI the main mountain bike trail loop is a single path. Makes it nice and easy to work on. Bring it into Designer and I think it became dozens of really small ones? I'd really like to move to a Designer workflow because AI is so expensive for the no-pay volunteer work that I do making these maps, but the up-front work of that would be tremendous. So for now... I just can't.