Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer - 6/11/2009

Question
Kevin,

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.

Kevin