: Saving vector art using Illustrator with the intent to sell artwork to people who work with various vector software and versions of Illustrator? I have been making vector art recently and am

@Jessie844

eps is the standard, and the process is as simple as choosing eps from the Save As menu. It's been the standard for this sort of thing (final asset delivery) for longer than I've been in the industry, is understood by basically all vector design software, and is very similar to Illustrator's native format (the original post script format eps is based on was an adobe creation, used in PDFs and in AI files).

Just don't expect artboards or anything else requiring illustrator-specific meta data to come out the same. The product - the core artwork - however, should be fine. You should make sure that anything depending on an Illustrator feature still works when expanded - but when you're producing for all versions and all vector software, this should be part of your workflow anyway.



In theory, you could use SVG as a nice modern standard that can also be displayed in browsers. Unfortunately, the way Illustrator handles SVG files is messy and non-standard, and they can't realistically replace PNG on your site as internet explorer versions before 9 (still a large % of internet users) don't understand them. But they might replace eps as the standard one day.



Tip: if selling vector artwork, make sure that there aren't any paths you think are closed that are actually left open. It's an easy, common mistake (especially if you've been drawing freehand with the pencil tool), and can cause artwork to be rejected or customers to complain - people buy vectors to work with them (generally speaking), and iunexpected open paths make them harder to work with. There are scripts that help if you have trouble. Here's an article from a stock site with more info - www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=578 - they recommend the free select menu plugin from Graffix

Vote Up Vote Down