I have a PDF file from a client’s designer that my printer can’t use. It reads fine as a PDF but when it is places into another program the fonts get jiggy…
I contacted the designer about converting fonts to outlines but that was foreign to her… She tried a couple of time and was not successful. She informed my client that she was through trying. She had spent enough time on it… She did not tell me the native file format.
Can some one help here? I tried myself but was not successful either. I believe there must be a way in Acrobat.
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I also havve a PDF file sent to me and if I open it in Illustrator and select a portion I see it is in a vector format, but I have not been able to separate the elements to use the part that I need. Any advice as to how to break this apart?
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Then why make it your problem? If she is DONE! with helping on this, call the customer and tell them to find a way to make it right. If customers want their stuff they will find a way.
I have pulled a few files into photoshop and I didnt like the resolution when I got thru messing with it. Ill give a file 1 chance to open, after that it's not my problem.
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I just broke up Joe's problem graphic using CorelX3 and had no problem, aside from about 5 minute's worth of editing the text in a couple of minor ways.
I would charge a small fee to cover what the "designer" should have done.
Rick, do you have Corel? I've tried Illustrator a few times but Corel is more fun.
It doesn't look like my help is needed here, but it was fun to look. One thing I like about pdfs is the pantone numbers always come through.
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Si’s file would work but Russ’s has a little better resolution. I will send both to the printer.
Bruce “If customers want their stuff they will find a way.” I guess me asking for help here was “my way” of “finding a way” to keep the work of my client with me.
This is a good client of mine. He is exasperated with the designer’s attitude also. He paid for the design. He was out of options with her… I look at this as a learning experience too. We see this a lot as sign people. So we should learn to deal with it. Please don’t get me wrong; we should get compensated for the work.
Thank you, thank you again for the help, Joe
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I bought the full version of Acrobat just for these types of files. I can save .PDF's as .Eps's all nice and vectored. It has saved me so much time over the years.
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Russ, it was Fred Weiss who posted it in response to a comment of mine- it's good stuff!
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