Coverting .png to Illustrator formats ???

[SimonY]

Wonder if anyone could please help.....

I am trying to have some decals made up for my car - the guy who usually does them is really busy and says that he doesn't have time to do the artwork, but if I send the design to him in Adobe Illustrator .ai (or .eps ???) format he will make them before the weekend. However I have absolutely no idea how to convert from .png to .ai.?


I did the design on the latest Fireworks, and this seems to have the capability to save in .ai, but all of the vector shapes shift when I do this.

So can anybody help? A converter? (I have searched t'internet) Or somebody who can import a .png into Illustrator for me? Pleeeease

[mmm-five]

The problem is that PNG is a bitmap (i.e. dots) format, whereas Illustrator creates a vector (line & curve descriptions) format.

I know Fireworks can save as an AI file, and you've seen it work - however you may have to simply clean up the AI file in Illustrator itself - which shouldn't be that difficult as it uses similar vector/bezier tools to Fireworks.

I've not had any problems converting from one to the other - unless I've used mixed styles in Fireworks (i.e. bezier curves plus some bitmap painting/sketching).

I can have a look at it if you want - I'm on tony dot carterinman at gmail dot com

[SimonY]

Thanks very much, have sent you a mail