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Expert: - 3/19/2008


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With previous versions of Ai I had no trouble opening .dxf files.  Just hopped on Leopard and Ai CS3 and suddenly can no longer get them to open into, or place?

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Hi Dave,

This is direct from Adobe:

"You can import AutoCAD files from version 2.5 through version 2006. Illustrator supports most AutoCAD data, including 3D objects, shapes and paths, external references, region objects, spline objects (mapped to Bezier objects that retain the original shape), raster objects, and text objects. "

The only issue I can find is if you Auto CAD interchange file is a different version that what is currently supported or it has data embedded that Illustrator cannot read.

Thanks

Kevin  

Adobe Illustrator

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