You can simply delete the duplicate tags in Acrobat if that works better for you, instead of Artifacting them. ... View more

If you are below Mac Sonoma, when you say you unchecked Print as Image, did it still show as Custom at top left? If so, reset to Acrobat Default and see if that changes anything. However, if you are at Mac Sonoma or above, Apple removed a component that was necessary to allow poster printing, so it is no longer available. ... View more

If you have "Use Typographer's Quotes" turned on in preferences, InDesign will process a "dumb quote" (i.e the inch marks) to “smart quote” based on the language assigned to the paragraph, whether it's typed or sometimes when it's pasted. If you use the actual key command for a proper quotation mark (e.g. Opt-[ for a “, Shft-Opt-[ for a ”, Opt-\ for a «, and Shft-Opt-\ for a ») will make sure your get what you want. Use these in your Find and Replace if you want to change them that way. ... View more

Glad you worked it out! ... View more

"they also say that they are linked to the Pasteboard rather than the page that they are on." This might be a cropping issue. You might have accidentally moved your image within the graphic frame using the direct select tool, so the contents of your graphic frame moved onto the PB, but the actual frame stayed on the page.. What happens if you, say, use the center command on that frame/ (Fitting > Center Content) ... View more

@Udaraua : Lots of factors here, but basically yes if the fonts and graphics are available. The file would have to be inspected first before a definitive answer can be given. ... View more

Try this instead: Since you have your stroked type on a separate layer, convert your stroked type to outine. Change the sroke to "align to outside" and reduce the width to half of what it was when it was centered. Set your fill to the same colour as the stroke. Expand Appearance. Then use Pathfinder to Unite all the shapes. You should now have one shape with no "holes". It would be nice if you were able to "align to outside" a stroke on live type, but you cannot as far as I can see.     ... View more

As suggested, you will have to change stroke to an offset, or manually deleting the extra "holes" What is happening is your stroke is bigger than the object it's applied to, and strokes are centered on the path, so while half the stroke is going outward, the other half is going inward. In the case of the "dot" it's going past the edge of the dot in the opposite direction, and this path is being drawn in the opposite direction (due to a thing called winding direction) so it's essentially cutting a hole. There's no "fix" for it per se. That being said, this phenonemon mostly affects curves, especially those in a compound path like a font letterform, but its not limited to that.     ... View more

That's CC2021's InDesign, and I can assure you that ATF Franklin loads from Adobe Fonts and shows up in this version just fine. Are you loading the ATF Franklin Gothic family in the Adobe Fonts website? When you do, you have two options: the first you are presented with is "Add Family", whuch will load the font and be available with Adobe apps ONLY. You can go one step further ; after you "Add Family" you will be presented with the second option "Install Fonts" which will temporarily install them on your computer and allow them to be used in other apps besides Adobe's.   ... View more

Late to the party. Another movie moment homage. ... View more

Okay, did at any point did someone use the Edit > Convert to CMYK on all the objects? This would totally do what has happened to your file, including any spot color objects...: they would be converted from the RGB as defined in your swatch to the equivalent CMYK mix according to the output profile in your Color Settings. This does NOT change or delete the swatches, so that's why you are still seeing them. And if you normally would send these to print as spot colors, the output RIP may be using a differnt way of converting the spot to process, which is why you will see difference is the final product. For example, the RIP may have a different CMYK output profile than what you used, resulting color shifts, OR even this: many high-end RIPs can do a thing called Pantone Replacement, which only references the color's number (072 in this case), ignores what the swatches definition is, and replaces it with a CMYK mix that matches an 072 swatch refernce BETTER on their press.   ... View more

This was covered here a few times, most recently with somone creating a graph in Cairo. I don't know anything about either Cairo or R, but a quick google search mentions this being a problem and that there are apprently routines you can invoke to simplify the sampling in your graph, or by splitting your graph into a few separate sections at a time so you have a few lines that you can butt up against each other. The other way, of course, is to render your graph as a high-resolution image file in Photoshop. ... View more

Yah, that's odd. CV swatches were always (and only) CMYK mixes. In fact 072 in the CV library should be 100C 79M 0Y 0K. The values in the top grab are very definitely color managed conversions to CMYK. This doesn't happen "mysteriously". Someone did something.   Also, I'm wondering why are you using the current Pantone C (solid coated) sets. CV are very old and no longer relevant or even close matches to the true current 072 LAB values. ... View more

You've reached the limit as to how many points can be in path in Illustrator (approx 32000). There is no solution unless you simplify the graph at the source. ... View more

"But I don't currently own an updated version of the software" Ah! I thought you were having trouble opening them in a current version! Makes sense now. In any case, they opened just fine here.  I've resaved them as Illustrator PDFs (with editing ability should you ever get a current Illustrator). Here ya go:   ... View more

Illustrator works a bit differently. If you copy an object, but move the 0,0 point to another location, then do either of a Paste-in-Front or Paste-in-Back, it will paste it relative to the new 0,0 point, while Paste-n-Place will honour its original location no matter where the 0,0 is. ... View more

"if you set (0,0) origin to Page - instead of Spread - then it will paste correctly on the right pages as well" Just tried that. Sadly, it doesn't. It will still only paste on the side of the spread it was copied from. ... View more

... and Mac : Shift-Opt-Cmd+V ... View more

Funny enough, I decided to test a file today with the same text in your screen shot, and since it was an image, I used Google Translate to recognize the image back to English and then back to Marathi, and this is what I got!   But if I deleted the period, the dotted circle went away.  Weird.  The font Google uses here is Roboto, but apparently Google translate also uses the harfbuzz text shaper, so the plot thickens! Perhaps a bug in harfbuzz.   ... View more

Definitely. ... View more

Here's my take: all a theory, of course. Pantone was relevant when people were actually using their inks. Any printer using Pantone colour, had to buy their ink from a Pantone-licensed ink supplier, or buy the set of Pantone base inks that were then used to mix each of the colours in house. That really WAS their bread and butter in those days. Printers weren't even charged for swatch books, as long as they used their ink. Others (like agencies and designers) would have to pay for them mostly because they are hella expensive to print. In my years in the print industry did we ever pay for swatch books. As more CMYK work and alternative printing processes starting replacing the use of actual spot inks on the press, designers literally stopped opting for spot inks due to the expense of it. At the printer I worked at, we saw less and less Pantone jobs over the years, even from the bigger Agencies. Yes, they were still needed and used for single or 2-colour offset print jobs, and specific brand work, but fewer designers are designing 5-colour or 6-colour print jobs these days. Even to them, digital is cheaper, and better than ever. Hence, as many printers become more digitally-based, Pantone was becoming less relevant, and although it is possble to do relatively good matches to Pantone inks with wider gamut printers, why even bother. And, of course, this is not good for Pantone as they are no longer selling as much bread and butter ink. Hence, I suspect that Pantone saw a need to improve a revenue stream, and they started moving to their subscription-based systems as one way to do that. (I personally hate that approcah.... you wouldn't like having to pay a monthly fee to keep an Ikea catalog on your shelf!) I suspect the licensing fee to include them in apps were going up as well, and this is probably where the beef with Adobe started... similar to the decision to drop licensing and reselling of Linotype/Monotye fonts. Even before they were deleted form CC apps, Adobe hadn't updated the libraries they were supplying, missing many new colours. Yes, Corel and Affinity and Quark still have them, but it's because they are likely still willing to pay Pantone to license them, relevant or not....   for now..... who knows! ... View more

When you open them in a text editor, do they look similar to this?     If so, they are definitely Illustrator files. Since they didn't have a suffix, they are old Mac files that didn't use them., and will  have lost their creator code on modern systems (that tells a program what type it is). Adding a suffix should do it, but make sure you're adding ".eps" and not ".ai". After which, Open the file from inside Illustrator; you shouldn't need to, but you might have to select "Illustrator EPS" or "Encapsulated EPS"  file format in the Open dialog.   If, however, you are seeing something else in the text editor, your files have been modified/compressed/corrupted in some way. But if you'd like one of to try, send them along.       ... View more

Acrobat updates are handled within Acrobat. Depending on how you set your update preferences, the new update will either download and install in the background or will need to be started manually under "Check for Updates". CC will install the base version (in this case 25.1) ... View more

As for the Pantone swatches, Adobe can no longer bundle them for "reasons" I won't get into as that's been covered ad nauseam, but if you still have your older Illustrator install on your previous system (e.g. the most recent one where you had the Pantone libraries available), you can copy them over to the proper location in the new install. (Illustrator > Presets > Color Books). Caveat, some of these libraries are outdated and will not have the most recent color additions, but you will at least have the ones you were working with before.  If you've already trashed your old install, but might happen to have a time machine backup, you can search for them and restore them. ... View more

There's nothing wrong with your PDF, so it comes down to how and where you are uploading this? ... View more