Hi Martin,

> It is unfortunately the same mess as opening the PDF directly (Illustrator CS3) <...>

Hmmm, over here with Illustrator CS2 it seems to be working as expected... Can you please double check that you're opening the .ai file and not the PDF since they have the same name?


> A seperate PNG file is not bad because I could treat it seperately in
> another program e.g. convert it to line art.

Yeah probably some people will like to use this just to harvest the PNG file and use it instead of the .ai file.


- Michael