Adobe Illustrator Brushes

[Fubb]

Im putting this in technical cause it's dealign with file extensions, etc etc.

So, at school I downloaded a bunch of brushes for adobe illustrator and they worked fine......

But now when i download them from deviant art, they come in an .abr extension which illustrator tells me is an 'unknown file type' and they need to be in a .ai extension....any idea's about how to get the brushes to work in Illustrator?

[Luchsen]

ABR brushes are for Photoshop. You can't simply convert non-vector into vector brushes.

[Fubb]

but even brushes i used for Illustrator are in .abr format..unless of course its just coincidence that the people made illustrator and photoshop versions

[Fubb]

http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/?order=9#catpath=resources/applications/illustratorbrushes&order=9

Those are all apparently illustrater brushes and are in .abr format. I am confused :( specially the ones i used last year don't work..

[_r.u.s.s.]

why don't you contact the person who made the brushes you want to download and ask him?

[Pandaaa]

You can make art brushes in Illustrator similar to how you can make them in Photoshop. But there is no way to directly convert a brush .abr to an Illustrator file (They are two different sets of code. You can't directly convert a raster tool to a vector tool, which is what you are trying to do).

You should ask here, as most of these guys know more than I do:
http://www.graphic-forums.com/