5 Replies Latest reply: Jul 12, 2011 9:39 AM by praveen mds RSS

    Why does some text convert to outlines when opening a PDF in AI?

    mpc999 Community Member

      I often have to open PDFs saved from InDesign CS5 in Illustrator CS5 (Mac). These PDFS are saved from InDesign using Press or PDFX1-a settings.

      When I open them in AI, I get the warning that "to preserve appearance, some text has been outlined".

      Of course, I do not want this to happen.

       

      The text that gets outlined is nothing special. It is seemingly at random within a paragraph or within a cell of a table. In the screen shot below, live text has the blue underline; outlined text does not.

       

      I can see no rationale for it. There is no transparency involved. Just black text on no background. There is no special "appearance" that needs to be preserved. Fonts are all Adobe OTF (Myriad Pro shown below).

       

      Can anyone explain why this happens?

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