Adobe Illustrator - Re: Editing PDF files in Illustrator? Any gotchas?

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Re: Editing PDF files in Illustrator? Any gotchas?

rpresser

2006-05-11, 10:16 pm

Aandi Inston wrote:
> Caveats about using PDF as your normal format from Illustrator, with
> "preserve editing capabilities"

> 1. If you, or anyone else, uses ANY OTHER PDF editor to change the
> PDF, then you reopen in Illustrator, the original PDF, not the edited
> PDF, will open.

2. PDFs created by Illustrator may be (often will be) bloated compared
to those generated by Acrobat Distiller or Ghostscript.

AES

2006-05-12, 6:16 pm

In article <1147374284.656059.122180@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
"rpresser" <rpresser@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:

>
> 2. PDFs created by Illustrator may be (often will be) bloated compared
> to those generated by Acrobat Distiller or Ghostscript.

But if I then open that PDF in Acrobat and do a Save As or a Reduce File
Size, it gets trimmed down . . . ???

(And the trimmed down PDF can still be opened and edited further in
Illustrator if needed? -- though some of the earlier Illustrator edits
may no longer be undoable or reversible?)