Convert AI to JPG using CS3 SDK - Adobe illustrator

Scripting in my humble opinion but it really depends on what you wan to do. Script from bridge using illustrator would be a good approach, again more detail is needed to make an informed comment.

Hi Brett,
Thanks for your reply. Here's what I really need to do. Source AI files gets saved to a particular directory. I need to write an application which watches that directory and convert the AI files to JPG. The feature support should include - control resolution, quality, anti alias, color space (RGB, CMYK and Gray) AND should be able to capture contents which are outside the art board.
I tried using ImageMagick. It works, but does not maintain the quality of the images and some images gets distorted. Also ImageMagick uses Ghostscript as the conversion engine and it can not capture contents outside the artboard.

Again, I stress this needs to be done as an application - not a plugin.

Hope you/someone can provide some directions.
Thanks
CS

Have you tried Acrobat Distiller/Acrobat to convert to jpg? I know it can open EPS, not sure about AI files.

Hi Chandra,

Could you tell me how did you use Ghostscript to convert pdf to jpg?

I have to this done in my classic asp code.

Thanks,
Iram

I ended up using ImageMagick to do the conversion. ImageMagick uses GhostScript for converting EPS (AI) to JPG. ImageMagick has libraries for java/cpp/perl etc. We used the Java library. It works fine with some limitations. One of the limitations we have come across is that ImageMagick does not capture the contents which is outside the AI artboard. And sometimes, the colors are off.

The other alternative we tried is scripting using AI - CS3. This captures the contents outside the artboard. But does not allow to set many of the parameters we want like resolution, colorspace.

Hope this helps.