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oxburger, Thanks for the response, does that mean InDesign can open PDF's? I don't have InDesign, so if it can open them do they come in with the layers intact?

Preluke, Thanks for the reply that's good enough for me, I shall carry on as I am.

That is exactly what I have been doing, but there have been times when the fonts haven't displayed (only in Illustrator, not in any viewers) and I don't check my PDFs in Illustrator before I send them and if the recipient can't see the text they don't know it is missing :-) I have spoken to...

Thanks for the replies everybody and the kind words from abc and the information from Dov. But this only confuses the situation more that designers are asking for cutter guides in PDF and they obviously shouldn't be. The CAD companies are now making plugins for Illustrator so the connection is...

I don't know if this is the right forum for this question, but I am a little confused. I design the structural element of packaging on a CAD system (as well as POS and Direct Mail pieces). I am asked to supply my cutter guides as a PDF. From what I understand the Artwork for my packaging is...

@Joe, the file is only 700mm x 500mm, I wouldn't be surprised that the front, back & cutter guide were all produced originally on one large artboard and then saved into a 3 page PDF, so Illustrator probably thought it was still one big file, I'm just guessing as I don't use Illustrator. It is...

Thanks for the replies and how I might discover this situation in future. Judging by the cost of preflight software I can't see myself buying it just to find this out on the odd PDF that has been scaled. It is a shame that the file when saved doesn't have a suffix or prefix indicating that it...

Thanks for the replies, @Dov, I got my "is it" the wrong way round and it came out as "it is", apologies. As I mentioned I don't know the specification very well :-( I have attached the PDF and it is only a 3 page with a sheet size of almost B2. Don't take any notice of the lo-res 4 colour...

I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, so apologies in advance and also if it has been discussed already. I tried to open a PDF (in Acrobat Reader) of some artwork yesterday and even though the measurements were correct, when I actually opened the PDF in CorelDraw, Affinity...

If you contact this company, I think they do a standalone converter for CFF2 files. www.dvserp.de If you just need one file converted, post it here and I'm sure someone will convert it for you. Failing that if you have full Autocad you can get a developer to write an importer for you, the...

Rectangles (outlines) instead of lines Rectangles (outlines) instead of lines Gents, Please find attached a file I have received from one of my clients. It is comprised of shapes and not lines, If I open this in a CAD program I either get just solid hatches with no outline or if I save it as...

Rich, I think I probably used the wrong wording, the file is more than likely created as a consequence of another one of the processes of Artwork creation. I imagine the file is created after the artwork has been finalised, when it probably should be created as a separate file before. I...

Stephen, Thanks for the quick reply. I think after spending the time redrawing this type of file this morning, I am going to refuse to accept them in future. Being provided with a file that has been created through ignorance, gives me enough excuse not to waste my time. I think I will create...

I know this is an old thread but could somebody explain to me why as in the original post these files even come into being? Why would you want to change a line into a thin rectangle, that is filled? I talk to a lot of diemakers and whenever I mention this type of vector file to them, I always...