You can control what to retrieve from an Adobe Illustrator file.
By setting File > Import > File 
Illustrator options, you
can enable Alias to import the geometry as a Group of
curves or as individual curves. You can also Scale the
image before importing it into Alias.
When saving an Illustrator file choose File > Print Setup 
, set Output to File
and set the Output Style to
Illustrator. The output results transfer the paint and shapes information.
The results of opening this file in Illustrator is a display of
three objects:
