![]() There isn't much Adobe's engineers can do within Illustrator to fix this problem. Any way to get the job done as fast as posssible is the best route, even if the end result is garbage. Some of it is basic laziness or they just don't care about the details. I've witnessed people who've taken graphics courses doing the same thing. ![]() Some of the problem is due to self-taught users who don't know any better. More often than not quick and dirty is the standard. There is such an overwhelming amount of bad practices routinely used in the trenches of the graphics world today. I've had to place and then break open the contents of PDFs to grab images or other assets that were less bad than the individual art files the client was sending. I've had to use the flatten transparency trick in Illustrator when a customer's PDF-based artwork had live fonts I didn't also possess. No matter how hard you try to do a good job with the conversion it will never be as accurate as having the authentic corporate artwork. Harvesting company logos out of PDFs takes far less time than it does to manually re-create the logo in vector form over the top of a pixel-based image locked down on a lower layer. On follow-up attempts at providing "vector artwork" they often place the same JPEG or PNG image inside a PDF, AI or EPS container. Then they get annoyed when I can't use that trash. 99% of the time the client will grab the first dopey JPEG or PNG image they find on their computer. I have lost track of how many times I've had to go online to harvest vector logos out of company PDFs because the company's reps fail over and over again to send proper art files. ![]() Some of those commandments for using PDFs crash against the even harder wall of reality when users such as myself have to deal with customer provided "artwork." You may end up just having to convert the embedded fonts to outlines and use them as a guide to insert fresh new text objects over the lines that need to be edited. ![]() It doesn't matter if "Convert All Strokes to Outlines" is checked it's an option. In the Flatten Transparency dialog box drag the Raster/Vector Balance slide from "75" to "100." Make sure "Convert All Text to Outlines" is checked. ![]() The Flatten Transparency trick is handy for converting embedded fonts in a PDF to outlines. Since the lettering in your PDF is getting replaced with boxes it has me wondering if the people who generated the PDF on the Windows platform were using old Postscript fonts or even fonts that were poorly converted from another format. Older TrueType fonts are not as compatible and Postscript Type 1 font files are platform specific. Modern OpenType fonts are much more cross-platform compatible. Mulitple builds of the Minion and Myriad typefaces have been created through the years, in multiple font formats and for different computing platforms. However, in order to edit the text without font substitutions you would need the same font files that were on the PC that created the PDF. That should keep any embedded fonts viewable in the placed PDF. One of the key things is making sure the "link" box is checked when placing the PDF into an Illustrator document. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |