This works for .eps files too. I guess it makes sense; PDF and AI are the same file types, they both begin with %PDF.
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This may be totally useless but ... I accidently drag and dropped an Illustrator (.ai) file into an open Safari window and, after a long pause, it opened it with Schubert's PDF plugin. This also worked in Firefox.
This works for .eps files too. I guess it makes sense; PDF and AI are the same file types, they both begin with %PDF.
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View Illustrator files in web browsers
Since Illustrator CS, the .ai files are "pdf compatible" by default.
View Illustrator files in web browsers
Funny bit still in 2014 (OS X 10.9) the Safari trick works like a charm! Thanks. It saves me from installing my old Illustrator copy.
View Illustrator files in web browsers
Shouldn't it also be possible to open Illustrator files with Preview? Since (AFAIK) PDF Browser and Preview share the same rendering engine in the OS, that is....
FWIW, I am fairly certain that Preview can open Photoshop documents — maybe PDF Browser can as well? (Not being a graphic designer, I cannot test any of these claims.)
View Illustrator files in web browsers
Works for me! Running Preview on 10.9. After you open the .ai file with Preview, you can drag your selection over an item and copy and paste it. It won't paste directly into, say, Pixelmator, but you can paste it into TextEdit and then move it over to your drawing program. Unfortunately, you don't get the vectorized picture. Just the bitmap(?) version. Better than nothing!
View Illustrator files in web browsers
Better question from a graphic designer, why is the Schuebert plug-in still a plug-in and not a default feature of safari?
View Illustrator files in web browsers
Even better, why not just merge Preview into Safari? Seems logical....
View Illustrator files in web browsers
i still work with version 10 and with those it won't work but if you have panther and want a quick look at what the illustrator file looks like without having to start-up illustrator then select the file in the finder and then get info (CMMD-I) and expand the preview by clicking it's triangle, it wil show a .. preview
View Illustrator files in web browsers
I would like this to work for me, but for me what happens when I try to view an AI CS file online (saved with "PDF compatibility" on), is Schubert plugin says "Converting Postscript to PDF" and then I finally just get an empty, blue page in Schubert.
View Illustrator files in web browsers
Maybe just instruct your downloaders to ctrl-click the file and open the pdf with Illustrator ? |
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