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Yes, the odds change - but they are still always(!) greater than zero! And I personally think ANY loss is bad.

A reminder that Illustrator is _NOT_ a PDF editor! It doesn't support a LOT of PDF features, so that when you open up an arbitrary PDF in Illustrator there is a good chance that you can/will cause data loss.

Were the edits done ENTIRELY by Illustrator or was some other tool (Acrobat, PitStop, etc.) used to make the changes? The file contains Illustrator private data - but that data isn't consistent with the PDF itself - which is why you get two separate views. This is why if you plan to edit with...

That is correct - and completely out of our control. The spot color swatches come from the manufacturer (Pantone, in this case) with either CMYK _OR_ Lab alternate values for use on devices w/o the actual ink (eg screens). Pantone strongly recommends that vendors (such as Adobe) uses the Lab...

ABSOLUTELY NOT a bug - it's is by design and is correct. As another person wrote, Separation "All" (aka Registration) is _NOT_ a color. It is an instruction to the rendering device to show up in ALL (hence the name) colourants (or plates, in a classic plate-based printing environment). It's...

To extend on what my esteemed colleague has said... It should also be noted that even when a font is "fully embedded" - that ONLY applies to the glyphs themselves. There is ZERO requirement to embed font information that is used strictly at layout time - such as kerning tables, OpenType layout...

Is it too late to fire them? If they think this seriously incorrect information, who knows what else they believe??? First, PDF has supported native OpenType fonts since PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7). See ISO 32000-1:2008, Table 126. However, even before that, PDF production tools (such as Acrobat...

AFAIK, there is not. In fact, I have to say that this is the first request that I heard for this.

Michael, I am SHOCKED to hear you talking like that - extremely old school and luddite-ish (is that a word, if not, it should be!) Layers are not only perfected good for automated workflows, they are quite useful when combined with job instructions (eg. JDF, etc.) that can control which sets...

And your output would violate the rules for both PDF in general and that of PDF/X-4. So why would you ever do that? The rules for PDF rendering state that, in the absence of external controls (such as via JDF), a conforming reader is to process the "Default" set of OCGs. If you send a PDF...

What version of the product were you using previously?

I have a feeling that is happening because you have a file that THINKS it is PDF/X (it claims it because of the metadata in the file) _BUT_ is missing the OutputIntent, so Acrobat has to fall back to something as it's very confused at this point (understandably so!). One thing it can do it look...

As mentioned here and in the other thread on this topic that you started, a standard PDF has no profile attached and so Output Preview will use your (CMYK) working space as the default. Only when a PDF has an Output Intent, because it complies with PDF/X, PDF/VT, PDF/A or PDF/E, will Preview...

As Stephen already pointed out, Output Preview works in the proper and correct manner by displaying the document using the profile that is associated with it (if any) or falling back to the working space when none is provided.

You mean that the default working space for CMYK is GRAcol2006, correct? I don't understand what that means. Are you exporting these as PDF/X files with their Output Intent set to GRAcol? If so, then that is the profile that will be set by default when you open Output Preview. If not, then...

That tells me that you are not exporting with live transparency. Try using a modern version of PDF - such a 1.6 or PDF/X-4.

Then just convert any inbound EPS files into PDF and process accordingly from there.

I don't have the profile on my Mac (also 10.9.3) so I can't see what happens here. If you can email it, I'll try. In general, Acrobat expects an Output profile - so it would normally pick (b) above.

As already mentioned, EPS is an ANCIENT format that pre-dates color management. It also doesn't support numerous other features of modern graphics formats including transparency, OpenType fonts and more. I would STRONGLY recommend that you consider using PDF - either "regular", "PDF/X" or...

A number of products offer this ability, including specifications via equations/math. PDFToolbox, PDF Enhancer and PitStop come to mind.