Help with Repalcing Font's

[FiFe25770617thmd]

Hello Community,

Since v2024 (I think) when opening a PDF drawing, Illustrator asks you to replace any missing fonts, but it used ask you if you wanted to Import the text as Curves (might have been called something else I can't remember) whereas now it doesn't ask you that.

Instead now you have to accept the default font or search online and install a font which adds more time to the job and we need to liase with IT for installing the fonts.

Is there anyway to set Illustrator to ask you if you want to convert text to curves/lines/symbols if the font is missing in the system instead of Adobe only asking you to replace the font with the system default or another font?

[Monika Gause]

I can't remember Illustrator asking that.

What you can do: Create a new file.

Place/Link your PDF

Select it and Object >Flatten transparency. Check"Outline fonts".

You can use that and then copy the text from there into your file that you can open a second time. Flatten transparency can be really destructive.