Access vector data from AI or EPS

[françois leroy]

Hi!

Does anyone know if we can access vector data from AI or EPS files, to be used with an effect plugin? Shachar may be?

I've looked at Streams and DynamicStreams, but couldn't find anything...

Thanx,

François

[shachar carmi]

again, i find myself the bearer of bad news...

AE deson't offer any in-depth access of the format parsers. you can only ask AE to fetch you a rendered image via it's parsers. (i.e. IO and FBIO plug-ins)

but since you can find the path to the origin file using AE's suites, you can parse it yourself. (NOT going to be easy)

from what i gathered, Ghostscript is the API to go with.

http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/API.htm

has been discussed here:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4246544?tstart=0

it's just one of these days where i'm not too helpful... 😞

[françois leroy]

Bad news is still better than no news... at least I now know where (not) to go!

I think I'll try to go the scripting way first, then see what happens...

Thanx,

François