Outlining fonts on open or Preflighting in illustrator

Question

I know this has been asked for since 2017. Working in the design field we get files from clients that are not outlined. If they are PDFs I can preflight them and fix the issue by outlining any fonts not outlined. However, I do not find this out until trying to open it in illustrator where it warns us of missing fonts and wants to substitute them. If I can view them in Acrobat without outlining them, why can this same function be brought to Illustrator where I can see them, and if I wish I can preflight and outline them?  It seems that Adobe has the technology to make this happen in one program but does not have it in its Flagship Illustration program. Please help

Monika Gause · Accepted Answer

Fonts can be embedded in the PDF part of the file, but not in the AI part.

What you can do is place the AI file in a new file in Illustrator (Illustrator will then use the PDF part of the file) - this needs to be linked, not embedded) - then Flatten transparency (outline fonts)

Editability of the file will suffer. So afterwards you'd want to copy the outlined text and then just normally open the AI file and paste the outlined part into it. This is probably way more complicated than asking the client to outline their text and then send the file again.

And you could make a feature request on Uservoice and perhaps this can be built (which only the developers know)

https://illustrator.uservoice.com

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