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1. Re: Interpreting InDesign Layers in Illustrator
Mylenium Nov 1, 2011 10:00 AM (in response to Paul Lerch)AI doesn't even retain its own layer/ sub-layer/ group names after shuffling stuff around, so take a guess how likely it would be to achieve what you want. Or in otehr words: Unless the PDF was created from AI and has the editable data attached, this is very much a hopeless case. And I'm not sure if your sideway use of layers in ID is a good way of managing your data to begin with. I think you're trying to see something in them that they aren't. They're not per se "layout layers", but rather just a secondary meta structure for versioning or multi-language docs to define specific dependencies. Otherwise ID isn't much different from AI - it uses arranged objects and doesn't care about a strict layer metaphor or stacking. As long as it gives the desired appearance, it will group and arrange objects in whatever ways you fancy and that is defined on the per-object level as a property of the object, not a document layer or something...
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