[iltos]

i FINALLY get the vector graphic thing, and i have this dilemma
i've the opprotunity to buy the cs2 design suite at an educator discount...but money is a bit tight right now, so if i can get away with using photoshop 7 and the new illustrator, i'd more 'n' likely settle for that compromise....

photoshop 7 has got the "export to illustrator" tab, but it currently will only save an empty page, which is confusing to me....i mean, it seems like it should save something, even if i don't have illustrator and can't use it

so i've two questions....specifically, would the 'export to illustrator' tab work if i owned illustrator cs2?....and more generally, how compatibile is my version of photoshop with the new illustrator?

as usual....thanks to everyone for helping out

[buck52]

Howdy

Knowing Adobe... I would be surprised if Illustrator CS2 was compatible with what they consider an ancient version such as PS7...

Most of their software is not backwards compatible....

buck

[CouchMaster]

It should work both ways. Export to Illustrator from PS7, and Import PS7 from within Illustrator.

[lister]

Exporting paths to illustrator does just that. You need to apply a stroke or a fill to the paths once you open them in illustrator, otherwise you won't see anything.

[buck52]

can either of you confirm that... As I said Adobe is noted for not supporting previous versions of their own software....

buck

[lister]

Originally Posted by buck52

can either of you confirm that... As I said Adobe is noted for not supporting previous versions of their own software....

buck

Not in my experience - well ok, yes, with Indesign.
As for the paths it will open in nearly any version of Illustrator.

Actually, I think you need to clarify just what you want you want to open in Illustrator.

[CouchMaster]

Originally Posted by buck52

can either of you confirm that... As I said Adobe is noted for not supporting previous versions of their own software....

buck

I've imported PS7 images with Illustrator12 numerious times to do a live trace - I don't think I've ever actually tried to export an image from PS7 to Illustrator though. So, maybe you are right; but I don't think so...

[lister]

Photoshop can only 'export' paths to Illustrator.

It doesn't, and never has, had any problems opening Ai files exported (or paths copied and pasted or dragged across) from any version I've ever used with CS2 (v6 up).

[iltos]

Originally Posted by lister

Not in my experience - well ok, yes, with Indesign.
As for the paths it will open in nearly any version of Illustrator.

Actually, I think you need to clarify just what you want you want to open in Illustrator.

sounds like my "export to illustrator" file was empty because i never defined any paths (i'm such a neophyte )

the graphic is this poster, done in ps7....a friend of mine has converted all the but the text around the "explosion" on the two tshirts to a vector file with fireworks, and says that fireworks isn't making that job very easy....

he tells me that ps7 and illustrator cs2 will work together, but in a limited fashion, and suggests i scrape up the cash for the cs2 suite....that's not gonna be easy

[erick295]

Originally Posted by buck52

Most of their software is not backwards compatible....

In what way? The Photoshop format hasn't changed in years, except for some new features which are discarded when an older version of Photoshop is used to open the file. Within reason, any version of Photoshop will open any PSD file, and Illustrator is the same way. There may be some occassional issues with doing this, but that's a whole lot better than, say, Flash, where older versions will not open files that were created with a newer version (although newer versions will open older files).