AboutKevin Stohlmeyer Expertise I am an Adobe Certified Instructor. I can answer all your questions about Adobe Illustrator version 8 through the new Adobe CS4 version.
Experience I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Illustrator and have been teaching this application to college students for the past 6 years. I now teach this as a corporate instructor.
Organizations Milwaukee Adobe Users Group
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
Education/Credentials BA - Graphic Design
Adobe Certified Instructor - Illustrator
I came in this morning to find my file, and the previously
saved progress file both corrupt for no apparent reason. I
managed to enable content recovery in the ai prefs and
generated the _filname.ai of which I've opened in a text
editor. Problem is, I have no idea what is wrong as I'm not
versed in Postscript at all. The error in illustrator reads
"Can't open the illustration. The illustration ended
unexpectedly.
Offending operator: "XI"
Context:
XH
%AI5_EndRaster
N
LB
%AI5_EndLayer
Right now I have an intern rebuilding the file as we were
able to open it in Rhino and at least extract out all the
vectors, but we still lost a ton of text. Do you have any
ideas?
Thanks!
Answer Hi Zach,
The only time I have had errors like this is when people save as as an ai file with the PDF compatibility turned off. It should be left on at all times.
Other than that, I would goggle the offending error to see if a forum has a listing about it.
