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Converting a PDF to Illustrator?
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I have CS5
I have a client who wants me to make substantial changes to update a PDF doc.
They have NO source files. Some other designer did them three years ago and they are no longer using that person.
When I try to open the PDF in Illustrator, it converts the fonts to outline EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE FONT. My version is True Type (Gotham family).
Tried saving from Acrobat as an EPS. Same deal when I open the EPS in Illustrator.
As it stands, it looks like I might have to recreate the docs in InDesign, and proceed from there. I can manage to save from PDF to Word, so at least I don't have to type it all in...
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Is there a trick or technique I don't know that can help me?
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Are they text changes? Why not use Acrobat to make them?
It could be the designer converted to outline before making the pdf, or there is some kind of write protection on it. I've just opened a PDF in illustrator just fine.
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Illustrator can be pretty particular about fonts like that. I open tons of PDFs in Illy and, sometimes, even though I think I have the font, I apparently have a different version, and it substitutes a default font. I can't say I've ever had it outline any fonts, though. Just substitute.
Even when I DO have the font, I usually end up re-setting the text anyway, to repair the breaking-apart of lines of type that happens in PDFs.
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi 
Are they text changes? Why not use Acrobat to make them?
It could be the designer converted to outline before making the pdf, or there is some kind of write protection on it. I've just opened a PDF in illustrator just fine.
Chunks of changes... replaced paragraphs etc... and the doc not recognizing my fonts
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Last edited by tpicco; Jun 29, 2012 at 08:50 PM.
Reason: forgot addl point)
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Oh well... I will rebuild them... and charge accordingly...
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good luck then, sounds like a PITA.
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I do jobs like this constantly for a small printer I'm friends with. He gets PDF files of brochures from small organizations that they had done themselves to run-off on their office printers. But, not that they feel the need for a better product, the PDFs usually need to be re-formatted for professional printing (add bleed, crops, convert to cmyk, etc.). I usually end-up rebuilding them completely, cleaning-up various horrors of amateur design (or Word-derived design) in the process. Invariably, they've used one oddball font for something, and I have to go hunting the internet, hoping to find some "free" version of the weird font. I've often also ended up re-building logos as vectors, because the low-rez jpeg they used in the PDF was the only version they had.
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