This is a known issue upstream, and remains unfixed. There are actually two different AI file formats - one older one that is postscript based, and a newer one that is PDF based. Inkscape's ill2svg.pl script only supports the older postscript format.
The corresponding upstream feature request for this is here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1613051&group_id=93438&atid=604309 Since the later AI format is PDF-based, this bug is dependent on having PDF Import functionality in Inkscape. The tracker item for this is here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1197549&group_id=93438&atid=604309 Since I suspect the PDF-based AI files are more common than the PS-based ones at this point, it might be less frustrating for users to simply drop the 'Import *.ai' option in Ubuntu's Inkscape. -- Error when importing/opening .ai files https://launchpad.net/bugs/51490 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
