Since support for Type 1 fonts is ending in January......

[Dov Isaacs]

Opened a file (PDF) that was created mid last year in Illustrator 2020 (windows) on the same machine that it was created on. A portion of the text was missing although it was visible in the preview window and there was no Illustrator font error. Tried the newest version of Illustrator with the same results. Opened in Acrobat Pro and it was fine and the print was complete. Attempted to edit the missing text with no success. Placed the document in Illustrator, text was visible but did not print. When the file was created I did use OTF fonts but the missing part was placed from a previous document and I may have not used OTF fonts for this portion.

HOWEVER, Adobe Illustrator is not, repeat is not, repeat yet again is not a PDF file editor. Contrary to some popular belief regrettably enforced by some Adobe marketing wonks back in the late 1990's, PDF is not the native file format of Adobe Illustrator.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

HOWEVER, Adobe Illustrator is not, repeat is not, repeat yet again is not a PDF file editor. Contrary to some popular belief regrettably enforced by some Adobe marketing wonks back in the late 1990's, PDF is not the native file format of Adobe Illustrator.

Dov how long until Illustrator's native file format is PDF? Thank you for your time.

 

[Dov Isaacs]

Dov how long until Illustrator's native file format is PDF? Thank you for your time.

Note that I am no longer an Adobe employee, but since PDF has features that aren't available in Illustrator and Illustrator has features that aren't part of the PDF specification, I don't see that ever happening.

Note that FWIW, the real native file format for Illustrator is private data stored within a file that is structured like a PDF file. The content of that private data may differ dramatically from what is in the imageable PDF content.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Note that I am no longer an Adobe employee, but since PDF has features that aren't available in Illustrator and Illustrator has features that aren't part of the PDF specification, I don't see that ever happening.

Note that FWIW, the real native file format for Illustrator is private data stored within a file that is structured like a PDF file. The content of that private data may differ dramatically from what is in the imageable PDF content.

So you're saying that Adobe is working on a new program that is made to natively edit PDF's? That'd be insane. Can you @ me when it's released? I'll even be a tester if you need me to.

 

[chriscozi]

So you're saying that Adobe is working on a new program that is made to natively edit PDF's? That'd be insane. Can you @ me when it's released? I'll even be a tester if you need me to.

Just get the Serif Affinity product line.
PDF native right now.

 

[Dov Isaacs]

So you're saying that Adobe is working on a new program that is made to natively edit PDF's? That'd be insane. Can you @ me when it's released? I'll even be a tester if you need me to.

Didn't say that; didn't imply that!

 

[Dov Isaacs]

Just get the Serif Affinity product line.
PDF native right now.

That product may be able to interpret large portions of the ISO PDF specification, especially the portion that is relevant to graphic arts, but its file format is definitely not pure PDF nor is the software capable of handling many facets of features available in PDF.

 

[chriscozi]

That product may be able to interpret large portions of the ISO PDF specification, especially the portion that is relevant to graphic arts, but its file format is definitely not pure PDF nor is the software capable of handling many facets of features available in PDF.

True.
And the features of PDF and Affinity products seem to actively evolve.