hi,
does somebody know, where i could download the
Adobe Illustrator Export Library?
Both webpages of the authors Allan William Martin & Mark Hill seem to be down...

thx,
paul

ah, you're right!

thx,
paul

Layer support doesn't yet exist as far as I know. I would suggest exporting the layers as different files. You can set absolute positions for the clipping masks when you load them in to your master file.

I used to use AIExport a lot, but it did become a real pain in the end.

So you need .ai files so you can edit them in Illustrator right?

Here's a tip that may solve your problem and will also be invaluable when taking vector files to a printer without worrying about what version of Illy they have.

-> Illustrator can save and load pdf files <-

I might sound a bit snarky, but I've used AIExport more than most and on the whole it's buggy, you can only use it in P3D and the only thing you can't do with pdf that you can do with AIExport is layers or give yourself a chronic headache.

I have a lot of respect for the work gone into AIExport. But using it nowadays is just making life hard on yourself for no reason.

itext, which is the basis for pdf export, has layers. these are showing up inside the pdf, but not in illustrator. here's an example:

Code:

// http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/
//
// http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/objects/bookmarks/Layers.java
//

import processing.opengl.*;
import processing.pdf.*;

import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;

 
void setup() {
  size(600, 600, OPENGL);
  frameRate(5);
  background(255);
}
 
void draw() {
 
    PGraphicsPDF pdf=(PGraphicsPDF)beginRaw(PDF, "pdf_####.pdf");
    
    PdfContentByte cb = ((PdfGraphics2D)(pdf.g2)).getContent();
    PdfWriter writer = cb.getPdfWriter();

    pdf.strokeJoin(MITER);
    pdf.strokeCap(SQUARE);
    pdf.fill(255);
    pdf.noStroke();
    pdf.rect(0,0, width,height);
 
    rect( random(width/2), random(height/2), random(width), random(height) );

    // these will show up in the pdf, but not in illustrator ...
    //
    PdfLayer l1 = new PdfLayer("Layer 1", writer);
    PdfLayer l2 = new PdfLayer("Layer 2", writer);
    PdfLayer l3 = new PdfLayer("Layer 3", writer);
    PdfLayerMembership m1 = new PdfLayerMembership(writer);
    m1.addMember(l2);
    m1.addMember(l3);
    
    cb.beginLayer(l1);
	  fill( 0xFFFF0000 );
	  rect( random(width/2), random(height/2), random(width), random(height) );
    cb.endLayer();
    
    cb.beginLayer(m1);
	  fill( 0xFF00FF00 );
	  rect( random(width/2), random(height/2), random(width), random(height) );
    cb.endLayer();
    
    cb.beginLayer(l3);
	  fill( 0xFF0000FF );
	  rect( random(width/2), random(height/2), random(width), random(height) );
    cb.endLayer();
    
    endRaw();
}
 

F