"None of the marks can hurt, can they?" Indeed, there's no harm. All good. They get cropped off anyway.  ... View more

That's better!  However, when you export your PDF, you don't need the bleed marks (the outer ones... printers don't need them at all), and the trim marks should be offset so they don't touch the corners of the artwork. The default is ually 6 pt (0.08333"), but printers would actually like it if it was more, so put 9 pt (0.125") in Offset.   Also, printers (I've worked for printers) do not need anything except the trim marks so you can deselect everything in Marks except for trim marks. In fact we don't REALLY need trim marks either, but it won't hurt to have them there. It's good visual reference. ... View more

Mixing fonts between Adobe Fonts and locally-installed is a potential problem; Make sure you are getting your fonts from the same source each time....especially if you have "Auto Activate Adobe Fonts" turned on in File Handling.  If you are sure the fonts came from Adobe Fonts in the file that was "good", it's better in the long run to go to the website and make sure the whole family is properly activated there. And if there are local fonts, especially if they came from a different source (say Google Fonts), you might have to deactivate them so they won't conflict....this can easily confuse fonts/styles. ... View more

@mahaa_2552 . Try it again, but Edit the Preflight like so.   Since your smaller pages aren't proportionally the same as your original size, you will have extra white top and bottom.   ... View more

@radzmar . User is on a Mac. This is not possible there. ... View more

Hi @Michael321458293v5s . I can check the file and advise. If it's simple, I'll just do it, no compensation required (that's not what we're here for!). I will send you a DM. ... View more

Print Options, click Properties, and uncheck "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts" if it is checked, and try again. ... View more

@carloss67 You are correct. The issue will also happen when outlining fonts in Acrobat. That suggested approach will NOT be any different than just opening the PDF and doing a Pathfinder > Unite in Illustrator where you have more control. ... View more

Agreed. The plugin would need to have it supplied internally. In which case, loading it from elsewhere might be exacerbating the conflict. It does seem this is a system begging for a font cache purge! @barb_5662 If you don't already have a way to clear font caches, suggest you download a version of Font Finagler (easy to find if you Google it). It has a great Font Cache purger. ... View more

I've seen  similar issues when either a "standard" system font that an app uses for its UI has been inadvertantly disabled, or another font has been loaded that is conflicting with that font. Are you using a font manager? Check there for any font discrepancies (and maybe purge font caches). If you only use Font Book, maybe go to it and try File > Restore Standard Fonts. ... View more

"Variable fonts aren't supported in PDF files" Yes they are. However, since there's only one or two outlines for an entire family (e.g a Regular and an Italic), you will get several subsets (with the same base name) for all the different weights, all with custom encodings so there's no overlap.  There's no way for these to be read back as live text, even if you have the font on your system, so they need to be outlined.   "Any variable fonts in the PDF will get outlined" Not just VF... any font using a large Unicode glyph set if one is using contextual alternates/ligatures etc have to be outlined as well. This causes two subsets... one for the "regular" glyphs and another custom encoding for extended glyphs. Text using the first can be read back into Illustrator as live text, but the other cannot be and is outlined.   ... View more

Re: EPS. I agree. What I found is, over the years, if you realllly had to convert a CDR to Illustrator, it might take a multi-prong approach and assemble the best bits form each way. Yes, the "best" is exporting to Illustrator from CorelDraw. The next best is exporting a high-res full PDF and opening that in Illustrator. The worst (in my experience) was opening CDR in Illustrator. Too many objects did not come in. But between the three, you might get all the pieces you need. The first two require having CorelDraw, of course, so you are very limited if all you have at your disposal is Illustrator's old import filter.  EPS is the fallback, but of course that requires flattening, (and can take forever to export) which will create a very complex file of many little bits, and color management issues, but it WILL look like the printed result. Still. not what you want to work with going forward. Personally, for the complex CDR, I would separate the true vector items (like text that needs edits, etc) from the more illustrative parts, then render that portion as a bitmap and make a base layer out of that. In my role as a pre-press guy, what we would often do with supplied files is literally export them as a high-res (600 dpi) TIF from CorelDraw and be done with it! 🙂 ... View more

"Do you have a link to the byte change?" Specifically, not sure which byte in this string did it, but If you have a v10 file, you can probably just copy and paste everything up to the 3 bytes of 00 00 00, and replace the corresponding bytes in the v11 file. That being said, it doesn't ALWAYS work; If the v11 had something new that v10 couldn't do, it would still error out. btw: this was a Corel Mac file, so not sure if the bytes in a windows file would correlate. Historically, I always found Exporting as Illustrator worked best, as Corel was doing the heavy lifting in attempting to make their objects into something Illustrator could use, whereas the Corel filter in Illustrator would import what it could and skip/mess up the rest. In fact, exporting EPS was even better (plus you could export a multipage document, although to separate files) and Illustrator was just as happy. ... View more

I stopped working with CorelDraw back with v11, but that being said, the Sangam file filter in Illustrator is a bit 'dumb" in recognizing the version of CDR. i.e. It actually WILL open CDR 11 files if you change one byte in the header (needs a hex editor, of course). I just tested that with 29.5.1 and it still works. ... View more

Yah, it's an unfortunate affectation with Variable Fonts because their actual outlines are made of sections that can move, resize, and are sometimes separate (like the cross bar of a "t"), so what you are seeing is not a bug, but "the way it works". This can actually affect static versions, too (mostly of the open source variety), if the font designer forgets to code their outlines to unite these shapes.  Unfortunately, right now it's unavoidable. I suppose it may be possible for Adobe to adjust InDesign's routine to automatically merge the outlines in a future version, but it will still have a hard time dealing with inadvertant incorrect font vectors, etc, on the part of the font designer (like incorrect winding directions), so the result can still be a mess. ... View more

Yes, if you had the installers. 🙂 Harder and harder to find someone at the other end of the line that knows how to help them with this. Of course, as we have found, the links to the (trial) installers are not available anymore. e.g. The links on ProDesign Tools no longer function, as the were re-directs to the offical adobe links, which has been unfortunately stopped.    ... View more

"The image is normal when opening it normally from the folder" Normal where? In Photoshop? Did you download this photo from facebook by any chance? In one of the other incidents mentioned here, the images were downloaded from FB. Something in the image handling routines at FB's end is introducing some bad data. I had analyzed the JPEGs in that case and there was a flaw in every one of them in the header of the file (invalid pixel density) and a slight bit of unexpected code at the end of the files. In fact, one program I used to look at the images, the files would open with "Invalid data included in file", so something was definitely up. Anyway, simply resaving the files from another image program that isn't so picky about the header being correct, like Mac Preview, will rewrite the header and eliminate the issue. ... View more

What version ARE you running?  Apps you've installed previously, like your Photoshop, will continue to run under your CC subscription, but any other app you want to install now, as others have said, is limited to the last two most current versions. Be careful with your Photoshop, though... If you happen to uninstall it for any reason, you won't be able to reinstall that version again.   ... View more

If you are on a Mac, and your images are stored on an external/remote drive, make sure your Adobe CC apps are listed in Full Disk access in your System Preferences > Security & Privacy. If not, add them all. ... View more

What System, and how/where are you installing these fonts? Also: make sure you're not installing BOTH the variable and static at the same time. ... View more

I believe the OP is talking about a PDF of an InDesign document that they have uploaded to the website, and NOT talking about the logo as PART of the website. In any case, what they describe as the "transparent" part of the logo is probably a Composite shape "cutout" in Illustrator. It seems whatever browser viewer they are using is not rendering the winding direction properly, which causes it to lose its "cutout" status and end up being white layered on white.  Copying and pasting thos logo from one documnet to another is irrelevant. My question is: Is it only one specific Browser that does it? (i.e. chrome/firefox/safari/edge, etc), or all of them? In any case, if the PDF can be shared here, we can poke at it abit. ... View more

Select your existing path and under Type > Type on Path options, select Stair Step. Change the other options to adjust to your desired result:   ... View more

I just did a test on my Mac, and Chrome shows the same issue on Mac so it's not Cleartype causing the issue as that doesn't exist on Macs). Doesn't matter what font I tried, btw.  Chrome is just bad at rendering PDFs. 😉 EDIT: Also tried Opera and it did the same thing, which makes sense as it uses the same PDF engine as Chrome. ... View more

How well a particular viewer works is totally "on them". Most third party viewers, and especially browsers, are bad at it. Chrome is typically the worst. Adding to the misery is technology like Microsoft Cleartype, which can shift characters slightly in each independent channel RGB to "make it look better" on LCD screens*. If you are viewing this on a Windows install, turn off Cleartype if it's on and see if there's any difference. If not it's completely a Chrome issue. *Your screen grabs actually shows this effect, but not consistently. If you open one in Photoshop and toggle between the R G and B channels, you can see letters shift one pixel either direction. This doesn't happen on evey line though, so on the ones that it does, the overall effect is that the line looks "lighter" than the ones that don't. Regardless, this has NOTHING to do with the PDF itself. ... View more

Depends; Not sure what you are trying to accomplish. ... View more

Snap to Glyph is meant for Live Text.  When text is outlined/expanded, it behaves as normal objects. Snap will work as it does for objects, of course, but you won't see any green guides. ... View more