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matts47237475
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May 18, 2020
Question

Unable to Image Trace a PDF in Illustrator

  • May 18, 2020
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A few weeks ago, I was able to place a PDF in an Illustrator file and crop it and image trace it without having a lot of clipping masks to delete. When I went to do this today I had to select the "edit contents" button in the top left so I could crop and trace and now I'm getting several layers of clipping masks to delete. Is there a way to avoid this?  It seems like this only worked for a little while because I haven't been able to place and trace before.

I know I can export the file as a png or other file type and place and trace, but being able to put the PDF directly in saves time. 

 

Thanks for the help

 

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Srishti Bali
Community Manager
Srishti BaliCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 26, 2020

I would like to know if the steps suggested above worked for you, or the issue still persists. Kindly update the discussion if you still need assistance with it.

Thanks!

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Participant
July 18, 2021

Hi -

I'm having what I think is the same problem. I had a large number of large ink line drawings scanned in at a local UPS copy shop (they're A3, which is bigger than my scanner). I was able to place, image trace and edit the first ten pdfs without any problem. I've now downloaded and want to do the same to the rest of the drawings, but none of them work! When I place the pdf, it is NOT showing the blue X across the image, and the 'image trace' options are not live. Please help!

I'm happy to upload a sample.

Thank you.

 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 18, 2021

Did you restart your computer?

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 22, 2020

Did you check "Link" when placing?

    Srishti Bali
    Community Manager
    Srishti BaliCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    May 22, 2020

    Hi there,

     

    Thanks for reaching out. I just checked and it works fine at my end. The only possibility I could see it saving a PDF with "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities".  Try turning off this option while saving PDFs and see if that helps.

     

     

    If not, could you please share the file with us? You may upload it to Creative Cloud (https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/share.html#file-folder) and share the download link. 

     

    Regards,

    Srishti

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