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I read the various posts on this thread....Some of the workarounds seemed very close to a solution, but not quiet there...:)
I guess what we ought to remember is that the pdf format was never meant to be an editable format. In fact, this technology started out with the express functionality that you cannot edit data once it is converted to pdf, thus protecting the original formatting of the file. IMHO, the best and so far the only fool proof way to edit a pdf is to get hold of the original doc. If we forget to do that then I guess we would do well to contact Adobe R&D, and hope they have figured a way out..... that is straight and square.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: 22-12-2009 23:30:33
Subject: Re: Editing a PDF
I don't believe Illustrator's "save as PDF" feature uses Distiller.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I think that's exactly what's happening. But to get back to PDF you
> need to go through the distiller in some manner. If no page size
> changes are being made during editing, it's very likely how they're
> going back to PDF that's causing the resize.
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