PDF coming into Illustrator weird

[CES020]

I have a customer supplied PDF and when I open in in Reader, it looks fine, when I open it in Acrobat X, it looks fine, when I open it in Illustrator, some of the text is screwed up on centering. The fonts all look to be the same on the illustrator file and all the others, so it doesn't look like it's swapping out fonts without asking me.

It's a 4' x 8' sign and the text is all centered vertically, but when it comes into illustrator, a few of the lines of text pushed to the right, off the sign.

I opened the file in Acrobat X and saved it as a new file and then placed that into illustrator and it did the same thing.

When I just "open" the file from illustrator, it does the exact same thing.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

[J Hill Designs]

did you try placing it?

 

[Letterbox Mike]

Sounds like the text isn't converted to outlines and it's substituting default fonts which aren't lining up correctly.

If it doesn't have to be vector, rasterize the .pdf in Photoshop, it'll come through perfect every time. If it has to be vector, create a new document in AI, place the .pdf into it (make sure you have "link" marked in the place image dialogue window). Now, select what you pasted, go to the object menu, pull down to flatten transparency, select "convert all text to outlines, slide the slider to 100% vectors, and click OK. You might have to release 2 clipping masks now (ctrl-alt-7 twice), then ungroup a couple times and it should work fine now.

 

[royster13]

Maybe it is not an Illustrator file......

 

[omgsideburns]

Pulling pdfs in to illy without the text being outlines will cause it to reset the type..

And if it's a PDF saved from another program, the text will end up being broken up in to individual characters a lot of the times.

 

[CES020]

Sounds like the text isn't converted to outlines and it's substituting default fonts which aren't lining up correctly.

If it doesn't have to be vector, rasterize the .pdf in Photoshop, it'll come through perfect every time. If it has to be vector, create a new document in AI, place the .pdf into it (make sure you have "link" marked in the place image dialogue window). Now, select what you pasted, go to the object menu, pull down to flatten transparency, select "convert all text to outlines, slide the slider to 100% vectors, and click OK. You might have to release 2 clipping masks now (ctrl-alt-7 twice), then ungroup a couple times and it should work fine now.

+1 Worked like a champ. I forgot all about that trick Eric posted a while back.

Thanks, it's done!

 

[omgsideburns]

good tip Insignia.

 

[Letterbox Mike]

good tip Insignia.

Thank Vector Doctor, it's his, I can't take any credit for it!

 

[The Vector Doctor]

Thanks for the recognition