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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Philip Taylor wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I spend a considerable amount of time
using many of the members of the Adobe Creative Cloud family —
Audition, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, to name
just the first five that come to mind. Premiere, as well,
though not as frequently. I very strongly believe that there is
a place, and a rôle, for commercial products, and whilst I am
more that happy to use XeTeX for <i>serious </i>multi-page
documents, little four-sided flyers such as I am preparing at
this instant are far easier done in Illustrator or InDesign. If
and when TeX is extended to support gradient fills (etc.,), then
I may have less use for Adobe CC. But until that time comes, I
will spend at least as much time using Adobe CC as I do using
TeX and friends.<br>
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Yesterday, for the first time, I made a discovery that may well save
fellow users of both Adobe CC and TeX considerable time — XeTeX's <tt>\XeTeXpdffile</tt>
primitive is quite happy to accept an Adobe Illustrator file (type:
.ai) as input, and thus I can now combine my Illustrator files using
XeTeX without needing to first save them as PDFs. Sample at <a
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href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7vxqz2mzjpmsch/February%20flyer%20%28compressed%29.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7vxqz2mzjpmsch/February%20flyer%20%28compressed%29.pdf?dl=0</a><br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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