Anyone know why my art has become flattened and there is now a big blue 'X' on it?

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No idea how this happened but I closed my file as usual then when I re-opened it all of the artwork is flat and has a big blue 'X' on it, all one piece. Any help here would e greatly appreciated!

Ton Frederiks · Accepted Answer

The big blue X shows that it is an image (look in the Links panel).

Don't open a PDF in Illustrator (unless it was saved with Illustrator capabilities option).

Use the original Illustrator .ai file to edit the content.

Monika Gause · Answer

What did you do? Open a multipage PDF?If that is the case you could try if embedding all the pages helps. But still you won't have a lot of joy editing it. Did you save the file on a server?Did Illustrator crash? And what Ton wrote.

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