Text missing when edit PDF in Illustrator. It's visible in Acrobat

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February 23, 2018
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I'm making drawings in Fusion 360 (from Autodesk) and print it out as a PDF file. The file with all informations, is visible and possible to edit in Acrobat, but when importing into Illustrator, are the text and dimensions missing!!!

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Correct answer Monika Gause

Illustrator is not a general purpose PDF editor.

It might work and it might fail.

You can try and: create a new file in Illustrator, then place the PDF, then Object > Flatten transparency with the setting "Outline all text"

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GS84

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export as .dwg then plot dwg to pdf then open that in illustrator

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I don’t think Adobe will accept it is an issue since that’s not what it’s for (See Illustrator is not... above)

andrews79064466

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I am also having this issue. Was never an issue on cs2,3,4,5, or 6 so something has for sure changed

Every pdf that I open in ai tells me "the document contains PDF objects that have been reinterpreted: some text has been outlined" (which did happen sometimes on the older versions), but the thing is that none of the outlined characters show up once outlined, they just disappear.