How Can You Convert an Adobe Illustrator File (AI) to an Encapsulated Postscript File (eps)

One of my web applications is using RML to render PDFs.

For one PDF document template I received a new logo file which was produced with Adobe Illustrator (file extension .ai).

The RML library cannot handle ai-files, but eps-files.

In order to convert the file I used Ghostscript as following:

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=eps2write -sOutputFile=out.eps input.ai

where

• -dNOPAUSE means “no pause after page”
• -dBATCH means “exit after last file”
• -sDEVICE selects the device
• -sOutputFile is the name of the - you can guess it - output file

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