Creating outlines in PDFs?

[Hop_David]

Clients often send our newspaper PDFs for ads.

Sometimes they're the wrong proportions and I want to do editing. My favorite way of tweaking pdfs is opening them in Adobe Illustrator.

However, if the pdf includes fonts I don't have, Illustrator will substitute and ruin the ad.

I'm using Acrobat 6.0 on Mac OS 10.5.7. I notice the Acrobat Advanced menu includes "Transparency Flattener Preview". When I choose this menu item I check "Convert All Text to Outlines".

Is there a way to apply this "Convert All Text to Outlines"? At this time the so-called "Portable Document Format" isn't so portable (at least for me).

 

[Magnus]

I would recommend that you buy a Acrobat plug-in called Enfocus Pitstop.

 

[leonardr]

Clients often send our newspaper PDFs for ads.

Sometimes they're the wrong proportions and I want to do editing. My favorite way of tweaking pdfs is opening them in Adobe Illustrator.

However, if the pdf includes fonts I don't have, Illustrator will substitute and ruin the ad.

Adobe Illustrator is _NOT_ a PDF Editor. Don't try to use it as one.

I'm using Acrobat 6.0 on Mac OS 10.5.7.

Acrobat 6 is VERY old and no longer supported by Adobe - let alone supported on that version of Mac OS X. PLEASE upgrade your software if you'd like help and support...

Leonard Rosenthol
Adobe Systems

 

[PDL]

Adobe Illustrator is not a PDF editor, I agree.
Enfocus PitStop for Adobe Acrobat will require that you upgrade Acrobat from version 6, a good idea none the less.
Another alternative for editing PDF's is EskoArtwork's Native PDF editor called Neo.
Here's the info : Efficiency and productivity for editing and correction of multipage PDF files . Download the free trial and take it for a spin.

 

[beermonster]

in newer acrobat versions you can add a transparent watermark then flatten and convert text to outlines - works fine

 

[beermonster]

by that i mean newer than v6 - unless that has it but i dont have v6 so i cant tell you

i'll shut up now

 

[Colorblind]

Adobe Illustrator is _NOT_ a PDF Editor. Don't try to use it as one.

He, he, he, I could see this one coming from miles ahead. I totally agree with Leonard on that, I had a newspaper that once tried to "fix" my PDF in Illustrator and turned it to crap instead.

 

[Hopkins Printing]

Check out IntelliPDF Curves...

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Cheers,
Jon Morgan
Hopkins Printing