Can't open pdf correctly

[Sinexus]

Hmm...I'm new to Illustrator so I know I'm asking alot of questions here, just bear with me. Anyway, I was trying to open a pdf in Illustrator made from Word. It worked, but some objects here and there apparently were not recognized, and were replaced by question marks. The pdf opened perfectly in Acrobat, so I'm just wondering why Illustrator can't quite handle it, and what I can do to fix it? Just think it's strange, especially sice they are both products of Adobe!

 

[Eggles]

Well for a start, Illustrator is designed to open Illustrator files, and Acrobat is designed to open PDFs. Just because Microsoft make both Word and Powerpoint, would you find it odd that each program cannot open the other's native files? Of course not.

SOME PDFs will open OK in Illustrator but there are plenty of times there are problems. For example, if the font(s) used in the PDF are not available to Illustrator (such as might happen on a differnt computer to that which created it) then there will be problems.

WHY are you trying to open a PDF made from Word in Ilustrator? If you need to fix something in the PDF, go back to Word, fix it there and remake the PDF. Illustrator doesn't need to be involved at all.

Illustrator is not an editor for PDFs.

 

[Sinexus]

Here is the deal; I'm making a document that is to consist of text, graphs and equations. Word manages both the text and the equations, but the graphs are in pdf, which Word can't insert. Now, I thought I could make a pdf of the text and equations, open it in Illustrator, insert the graph there and voila. But that didn't quite work...but I found another solution that did, so it doesn't matter anymore. Thx anyway!

 

[chindo75]

WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION?

 

[Sinexus]

It was to save the graphs as eps instead, save the text and equations as pdf, then save the pdf as eps again in Acrobat, and finally open both eps files in Illustrator and combine them there. Clockwork...