Convert AI to JPEG

What language are you planning on writing the stand-alone application in? If you save the illustrator file with PDF compatability(on by default), any of the several PDF libraries should be able to rasterize the file as a generic image, which you can then convert to whichever format you desire.

All,
Thanks for all your replies. I need to do this as a stand alone application. Not as a plug-in.
Shannon, Are you doing what you said thru scripting or thru the SDK?

Any leads would be appreciated.
Thanks
CS

E-spec has a plug-in that extracts the layers as jpegs. http://www.e-spec.net

What I have found that works best and I am currently still looking for something easier by the way. But what I do is I open the Adobe Illustrator file, select all, copy everything, then open a new clipboard file in adobe Photoshop and paste it in there then I save m as a jpeg format. So far that has worked but it is still time consuming. So if all else fails you can try this it works for me.

I ended up doing this by using the ImageMagick APIs. It does most of the things what we want. However, if the AI file has multiple layers, it does not extract the different layers. Other than that, it pretty solid and reliable.

Me too, keep searching....

I also have this same requirement. I noticed this post is quite old but I'm hoping someone may have an answer for it. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give me....