• Adobe Illustrator

  Illustrator can’t open file

  Posted by Scott Adams on May 2, 2010 at 4:23 pm

  For the past few days I have been working on a project in illustrator CS4. As of about midnite last night I can’t open it anymore. I get the following error:

  Can’t open the illustration. The illustration contains an illegal or misplaced operator.

  Offending operator ‘+’
  Context:
  %+VdL+

  Les Nemeth replied 16 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Les Nemeth

  May 3, 2010 at 4:10 am

  If you’re lucky and saved the file as a PDF compatible file (by default), you can try to open it in Acrobat then re-save it. However, if you re-save it, all AI specific features will be lost and you will only have the plain vector work.

  You could try opening it in CS5 (download a trial), or you could reinstall AI.

  These are the tips I have. If none of them helps, at least you get some hardcore experience to re-create the whole thing. (That’s my idea of having fun…)

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