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QUESTION: Why do users sometimes have problems when trying to use Adobe Illustrator to edit a PDF file?
ANSWER: The short
answer to this question is:
Adobe Illustrator is not and was never meant to be a general-purpose PDF-editing tool.
A document called the Adobe PDF Reference describes the format and structure of the
code within a PDF file. This document, which
was authored by Adobe Systems Incorporated, describes many different kinds of code that can be
contained in a PDF file. The main reason that you can't use Adobe Illustrator to edit just any PDF file is that
Adobe Illustrator understands only a small subset of the kinds of code that are described in
the Adobe PDF Reference.
You'll also run into trouble if you try to use Adobe Illustrator to edit text in a PDF file
if that text uses fonts that aren't
installed on the computer that's being used to do the editing — even if those fonts are
embedded in the PDF file.
In general, you will be able to use Adobe Illustrator to edit a PDF file
if the following things are true:
- The PDF file was created from within Adobe Illustrator by clicking File > Save As and
choosing Adobe PDF (*.PDF) for "Save as type."
- The fonts used in the PDF file are installed on the computer that's being used
to do the editing
You might be able to edit PDF files that were created by applications other than Adobe Illustrator, but
— as stated above — this is by no means a sure thing, and you should not be surprised if it
doesn't work.
You can get more information about this topic in Leonard Rosenthal's excellent blog entry at
http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/08/16/a-look-at-adobe-illustrator-pdf-editing/.
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