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alykat801
alykat801
New Participant
April 27, 2018
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I cannot open a saved multiple-page document as a single page anymore

  • April 27, 2018
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I use multiple page documents to make edits quickly. However, after opening these PDFs in Illustrator as a multiple page document (each page as an artboard, thanks to the new update) and saving this document only allows me to open said document as what it was before - a multiple artboard project. I want to edit a single page, but the option to do so doesn't show up. Am I missing something? Is this a bug?

Thanks in advance!

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MimakiPim
MimakiPim
New Participant
July 9, 2019

I had the same issue, for example:

Opened a 114pages PDF and wanted the 84th page.

I only entered the number 84 in the first (top) dialog (that was working in previous versions).

Now it don't. Now you have to enter the number of the page in the second dialog. In the 'select page' o Range: (number)

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    DRAY1510
    Participating Frequently
    July 9, 2019

    Pimd - Perfect! This worked. Thank You!

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      DRAY1510
      Participating Frequently
      June 25, 2019

      Illustrator 2019 does not open multiple page PDFs. It will only open the first page of the document. Good thing I didn't delete Illustrator 2018.

      Monika Gause
      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      June 25, 2019

      DRAY1510  schrieb

      Illustrator 2019 does not open multiple page PDFs. It will only open the first page of the document. Good thing I didn't delete Illustrator 2018.

      Can't reproduce that.

      Can you please elaborate? Do you want to open a PDF? Did you even save the document with "Illustrator editing capabilities"?

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      DRAY1510
      Participating Frequently
      June 25, 2019

      DRAY1510  wrote

      Any PDF that has not been created by the latest 2019 Adobe update acts the same way. Apparently something changed in this new 2019 update. I have to use Illustrator 2018 until this is fixed.

      Seems to work fine here in CC2019 on Windows.


      So, now it's a Mac issue? I'm running a new iMac Pro with MacOS Mojave.

      Ares Hovhannesyan
      Ares Hovhannesyan
      Community Expert
      April 27, 2018

      When you open an Adobe PDF file in Illustrator using the File > Open command, you specify which pages you want to import. You can open a single page, a range of pages, or all pages. The page range options appear in the PDF Import Options dialog box. You can view a thumbnail of a page in this dialog box before you import them.

      How to import Adobe PDF files in Illustrator

      alykat801
      alykat801Author
      New Participant
      May 8, 2018

      Yes, I know this. However upon saving said document after viewing it as all pages (or a range), I cannot open the same document and view it as anything other than what I viewed it as before. For instance, a multiple page document I chose to open to view all pages, I cannot view it as a single page or even a range of pages from now on. The option does not come up anymore.

      Doug A Roberts
      Doug A Roberts
      Community Expert
      May 8, 2018

      did you save it as an AI file?

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