Convert PDF to Illustrator?

[Stephen Marsh]

Whatever happened to the Enfocus stand alone PDF editor, PitStop Extreme?

Another option could be ORIS PDF Tuner from CGS:

ORIS PDF Tuner™


Regards,

Stephen Marsh

[michaelben]

I think this is not possible, may be I'm wrong.

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[Al Ferrari]

As mentioned earlier, I have been using a rather complex method to do a BWR adjustment to barcodes by stroking the outlined text in Illustrator and bringing it back in to Quark or InDesign, or into a pdf from one of these.

Well it turns out to be very easy and preferable to do it right in one of those applications by using the respective "convert to outlines" feature in either one and then applying the white stroke to reduce the bar width as needed.

Not only do you get to stay in the lay out application, but you benefit from their native quality display of the result. The roundtrip methods make use of some sort of low res preview and require careful repositioning of the imported result, while the native methods retain the original position flawlessly.

But the two applications stroke the bar vectors differently and require different treatment. InDesign uses a centerline stroke for each bar, while Quark produces the stroke with an outside aligned vector object surrounding the bar. Works, but seems like the hard way, and needs half the stroke width for the BWR adjustment compared to Indy. In both cases the numbers also get stroked, but these are just for the dumb humans and not for the intelligent barcode readers.

This is fast and free since it is already built into the layout application software. No expensive additional software needed.

Al