G5's imoprting Illus files

#1

Hi all,

I am helping a fellow Wings user get his Illustrator files into Wings, so far he simply can’t. He is using a G5, and saving them as v.8 files on a different drive that Panther is on (I believe), but I don’t see how that would affect it.

All I do with his files that he sends is open resave and import into Wings, works perfectly for me.

Is this something that has to do with G5’s in general?!? So far, I have really only heard about problems with Panther, and unless you actually have a G5, I don’t see any reason to upgrade a G4…?

Can someone that has a G5 test this out on their system?

And lastly is there any news about the Wings site?

Thanks!

#2

If it works on your machine but not the G5, then I would suspect that it is the 64-bit nature of the G5 that is the problem - perhaps some Erlang library routine works incorrectly, or perhaps I made a programming error (somehow assumed 32-bit integers), but that seems somewhat unlikely, as .ai is a text format.

Does the Erlang console window have any illuminating error messages in it after the import fails?

#3

If it works on your machine but not the G5, then I would suspect that it is the 64-bit nature of the G5 that is the problem - perhaps some Erlang library routine works incorrectly, or perhaps I made a programming error (somehow assumed 32-bit integers), but that seems somewhat unlikely, as .ai is a text format.

Does the Erlang console window have any illuminating error messages in it after the import fails?

#4

Hi Howard,

Yeah they worked fine on my G4 OS10.2.8.

When he does it, he gets this error-
“no such file or directory”.

Is this because the files are on different drives than the application.

Thanks

#5

It is indeed possible that it is because the files are on different drives than the application. Does the same problem happen if he tries to import a file in some other format (e.g., .obj) from the same place into wings? I would expect so, because I am using the same file browsing dialog and Erlang file opening/reading function that the other importers use. It could be that the file browsing dialog is not passing needed drive information to the importer.

#6

I have a G5 and have not been having trouble getting AI files into Wings…I’d be happy to test some files if someone needs help.

#7

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