Illustrator overwriting multiple pdf pages on save

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November 12, 2019
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If I open and edit a single page of a multiple page pdf in Illustrator 2020 it overwrites the file to only be the single page that was edited upon saving. The rest of the pages are just gone. Previous versions would just update the edited page of the file and leave the rest alone. How can I solve this?

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Correct answer Mr. Heid

I have finally figured out the culprit of this issue! Go to Preferences\File Handling & Clipboard and uncheck "Optimize File Open and Save Time on Slow Networks"

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Mr. HeidAuthorCorrect answer

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I have finally figured out the culprit of this issue! Go to Preferences\File Handling & Clipboard and uncheck "Optimize File Open and Save Time on Slow Networks"

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

That looks like a bug. Can you mention it here, so engineering is aware of it:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com

meganchi

Legend

Did you perform a "Save As"? If so, then beneath the file format drop down menu select the radio button that says "All" beside "Use Artboards", if you want them to all save out together in one pdf file.

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Mr. HeidAuthor

Participant

No, not using Save As. I just want to open a pdf, select which page to edit, and change the color and weight of one line on one page. All of this works as it always has until I hit save. Instead of it just updating that page in the original file, though, it removes all of the other pages in the pdf and saves only the page that I made edits to.

meganchi

Legend

In order to make the update and retain your other artboards, you will need to perform a "Save As".

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