>>> Oh sure, blame the junky geometry on someone else.... ;)

Hehe ! ;-) Fortunately, Michel found some other junk paths in the Photoshop presets so I'm definitely not guilty ! :-))

>>> I've got this tuned up now for the next v2 beta, so that AI files like this which have only non-visible paths in them will get those pulled in like they were for v1.

Thanks. I'm impatient to discover the new features of this beta. The fix will be a welcome addition.

>>> So, you'd better draw your own paths for your next tests I think

Sure. Actually, the toolset of MoI is sufficient for almost all my needs. One reason for which I can use Photoshop is explained in the attached image.

Additional notes on plain rectangles importation problem:

- When the ai file is created from Photoshop, the plain rectangles import correctly in MoI.
- When a rectangle is rotated in Illustrator, it also imports correctly in MoI.

- Michel

Hi Michel, this was a bug in MoI's path processing, when handling the special "re" (rectangle) operator when the width or height of the rectangle was specified as a negative value.

It looks like Illustrator just happens to generate rectangles with a negative width value, while Photoshop generates them with a positive width value, which is why the Photoshop ones avoided the bug in MoI.

I have fixed this up for the next v2 beta, so that the rectangles generated by Illustrator will be handled properly now.

I think it should also be possible to avoid the problem in the current beta if you export using the older version AI format, like version 8 or earlier. Those older file formats were before they switched to the PDF style format and the old style files do not have a "re" operator, instead they will just contain 4 lines to make a rectangle so those should work.


Thanks for posting the example file and the additional information!

- Michael

Thanks a lot Michael,

Looking forward for the next beta.

- Michel