Man, that's cool!!!

Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate your many tremendous tutorials, as well. You've provided a set of invaluable resources.

Hi SurlyBird, cool tutorial!

re: SVG - it's on my list but I do not have any prior experience working with that particular format, and that generally means that there will be a fair amount of ramp up and just studying time involved. The SVG spec itself is something like 500 pages in length.

So it's more likely that I'm going to get to DXF import and export and probably PDF export before I will try to tackle SVG.

Does Substance Designer _only_ support SVG and no other 2D vector formats at all? Because that's pretty unusual for a program that is actually focused on 2D work to only support a single format...

- Michael

I think SVG is the only importable vector format supported by Substance Designer. A lot of image resource files are supported, but I only see one file format I know for sure is vector-based and that is SVG. If Inkscape would open the version of .ai that MoI outputs, it really wouldn't be a problem. I could just push the MoI-generated .ai through Inkscape and export an .SVG from there. I can approximate things by using Inkscape's trace tools, but it's a tad unpredictable and requires more cleanup than is useful.

Inkscape does import DXF and PDF, too, I think. If I could go from MoI-to-Inkscape-to-SD via DXF of PDF, that would make me just as happy. After getting an idea of the magnitude of the task involved in getting SVG working I totally understand other things taking priority. And I also realize that I am asking for a feature that is kind niche. And it's a feature I would use for very specific instances, so it's not a huge deal. Thanks for directly addressing it, Michael. Appreciate all the work you do for us!

oi surlybird!

did you try uniconvertor?

http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor


it says command line tool on the package, but it actually got some kind of ui (in windows at least). eats MOIs-.ais and converts them into .svgs.









~marco

And...problem solved! Thank you, Marco! UniConverter works like a charm! I had never heard of it until you mentioned it, so you have my eternal gratitude. This made my day!