When opening my .svg file in illustrator, the paths appear to become slightly outset (e.g. an effect similar to what you might get if applying Inkscape's Path>Outset command). For larger paths, this isn't a problem to me, and in fact I never noticed this "offsetting" until I started playing with texture. Since I've been playing with using texture in my Inkscape illustrations, this offset of the paths upon opening my svg in Illustrator changes the look of my texture in an unacceptable way.

Things I've tried to fix this:

1.) Insetting my texture paths prior to saving the svg in Inkscape, then opening it in Illustrator. But this is a bit of a bother, and changes the look of the texture.

2.) Saving my Inkscape .svg without doing an inset command to my texture paths, but once opened in Illustrator, I use Illustrator's Object>Path>Outset command (using a negative number so it insets instead of outsets). But, this is an undesirable "fix" for three reasons: it's a bother, changes the look of the texture, and with my computer it is a sloooooow process when doing this on a complexly textured illustration.

Any ideas of what I can do to prevent this offsetting of my paths when opening my illustrations in Illlustrator?



Why I'm need to open the svg in illustrator:

In order to get a proper Illustrator eps file, I've found it necessary to open my Inkscape svg's in Illustrator and save an eps from there. Note: stay away from transparencies if you try this, as I've found they don't translate well when opened in illustrator, unless you create the transparency in Inkcape's layer dialog using the opacity slider.

So the outsetting is only visible when you use a texture fill? If you create two identical objects, one with a solid fill and the other with a texture fill, they appear as two different sizes in Illustrator? Illustrator will show the paths for these objects--are the paths for these objects different?

I'm struggling to think of a cause or solution. The only unlikely possibility I can think of at the moment is if there is an invisible stroke which Illustrator uses to trim the visible the textured area, instead of the objects actual path.

I'm not understanding what you mean by texture fill. Although, to better explain what I am doing, the following address shows an illustration I made in inkscape, an example of my playing with "vectorized" texture.

http://danielheywood.blogspot.com/2009/ ... rhino.html

All the textures are vector paths. When opening this textured .svg in Illustrator 10, I get that "outsetting" of the vector paths. I assume all paths in the file are outset upon opening within AI10, even the large shapes, such as the one that makes up the rhino head. But because it is large, and the outsetting is so small, it isn't apparent. But, with the smallness of the paths in the texture, the outsetting of these paths is apparent.