Quote: Originally Posted by MrForgetable Sí, ¡Gracias señor! so much easier now with the keyboard on Spanish. i can't find the upside down/regular question marks on the spanis…

yep, in U.S. keyboard mode, it is, but in Spanish i get this weird thing. / = ç shift + / =Ç shift + option + / = ¸ cannot for the life of me find the upside down question m…

Cool. Was unaware of the Keyboard Viewer! I had just enabled Special Charcarters in my apps, an dug through the windows until I found the one I wanted... the Keyboard Viewer is a n…

FWIW, Keyboard Viewer (which was originally a separate application called Key Caps) has been a part of the Mac OS since (at least) System 7, I think... definitely OS 8 and 9. The o…

It's very easy to see invisible files on a PC... is there a utility (free, or cheap) that will allow mac users to see invisible files from the finder and thus copy them. Yeah.. I'…

There are numerous utilities that do this and a couple of other pieces of software (for example, RBrowser lite which is a free FTP client that will let you browse your own local ma…

Onyx and Tinkertool will both show invisible files, along with lots of other very handy stuff. One of my favorites is putting both scroll arrows at both top and bottom of windows.

Another vector artist and I are collaborating on a project. I worked on it some, emailed it to her, she coloured it. Now, when she sends it back, it downloads as a .ps file (it add…

This may seem obvious but have you tried opening it in CS rather than CS2?

Don't have CS installed... not sure if I have a copy of it... That's ridiculous, though. If she could open my CS2 file, I should be able to open an older file. I used to use CS on…

That might not even work. Just making suggestions.

Any other ideas?

Tell her to save it then .zip it. That usually works when we have problem files from customers. Somehow, sometimes, things get lost in the transfer, either from email or from FTP o…

ZIP = Willing to wager that will help.

It sort of helped. When unarchived, the file appeared as a proper .ai file with the Adobe Illustrator CS ONE logo on it (the pink flower, rather than the orange one), but it still …

Alright, never mind. We found out the problem. Can't use compression when crossing versions, apparently. When I emailed it to her, apparently it all appeared on one layer, and she …

Oooh, that's good to know! I'm glad someone else went through the pain instead of me. Might be good info to have in the future. Thanks!

That is good to know, thanks for sharing.

Quote: Originally Posted by cleanup Alright, never mind. We found out the problem. Can't use compression when crossing versions, apparently. When I emailed it to her, apparently…

The Use Compression checkbox. Actually, there are still compatibility issues that we never got sorted out. For some reason, whenever I sent an .ai file to her, all the data appear…

I wonder if its also the 'Preserve PDF editing capbility' setting. Seeing as you noticed tons of clipping paths, it reminds me of when I open a PDF inside of Illustrator.

I'm on a PC using Illustrator CS2, but this might work for you good folks on Macs. Note that I have never compressed this file in any way, nor have I emailed it or opened it on any…

If you first created the .ai in CS2, I am actually surprised it opened in CS. But since it did, it must have converted the file to the legacy CS format, which apparently isn't read…

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Help! I installed Tiger over the weekend and now, every single one of my .ai files won't open! I've even gone through the 'open all files with the .ai extension in Illustrator' s…