What was that trick in Acrobat?

[TheSnowman]

I have a file that in Acrobat looks great, and is exactly what I need, but it apparently isn't "Outlined" and so when I open it in Illustrator, I lose everything, and it goes to my default fonts. I did a search for the trick someone talked about how to solve this issue, but I can't find it, or think of the right thing to search for apparently. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[petesign]

you can open it with photoshop and it will look fine.

 

[dbenec]

open new illustrator doc. place pdf. while still selected go under:

object / flatten transparency.

select convert fonts to outlines and move the slider all the way to the vector side.

vector doctor posted that. the trick worked for me several times.

 

[TheSnowman]

I thought he'd posted it...I just didn't search for the right thing apparently. Thanks!

 

[dbenec]

that one is a keeper!

 

[petesign]

nice! I didnt know about that one, always had to rasterize it at the final resolution in photoshop. I wonder why it will intrepret the fonts in placed files but not opened ones.

 

[thewood]

It's the very first Sticky in the Adobe forum:

http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11988