title: Can I alter multiple illustrator ai-files to svg files and preserve the layers?
body: <p>I have multiple .ai-files prepared in adobe illustrator CS3. I would like to transform all of these .ai-files in one go to .svg-files - but preserve the layering I originally had in the .ai-files?</p>
  
  <p>I can easily open my .ai-files in Adobe Illustrator and export them individually from within Adobe Illustrator to an .svg-format. But this will take quite some time to do on more than one hundred .ai-files.</p>
  
  <p>I have no issues opening an .ai-file from a .svg-file reading software, such as InkScape. But I can see that all the layers in the original .ai-files have been fused in to a single layer in InkScape. </p>
  
  <p>I don't want to manually open every single .ai-file from within an .svg-reading software and manually pick and move elements to new layers. This will take an eternity to do on all my .ai-files.
  Many of my .ai-files have quite a lot of layers.</p>
  
  <p>I am pretty sure there isn't a question like this on StackFolder. The majority of the questions appear to go in the opposite direction from svg to ai files.
  But please redirect me to a different post if I have overlooked something.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for your help on this</p>