Picking PDF's Apart in Illustrator
Finding a way to selectively add or remove items from a PDF seems to be quite the task. Using Acrobat Professional sometimes gives unwanted results. This little tip is extremely useful when you need to remove or add the item in vector format. This saved my butt when I threw away my original inDesign file by mistake.
Opening a PDF file in Illustrator is very simple. Open it like any Illustrator file. If your PDF contains multiple pages a little dialog box appears. Select the desired page and click OK.
Depending on the fonts installed on your computer you may get a missing font warning. If this happens either install the font (to keep the text formatting) or click OK to continue.
Retrieving the appropriate portion of the PDF may be a bit tricky. Depending on how the PDF was created you may have to ungroup (Object> Ungroup), release clipping masks (Object> Clipping Masks> Release), or release compound paths (Object> Compound Masks> Release). You may also have to do a combination of these operation a multitude of times.
Opening a PDF file in Illustrator is very simple. Open it like any Illustrator file. If your PDF contains multiple pages a little dialog box appears. Select the desired page and click OK.
Depending on the fonts installed on your computer you may get a missing font warning. If this happens either install the font (to keep the text formatting) or click OK to continue.
Retrieving the appropriate portion of the PDF may be a bit tricky. Depending on how the PDF was created you may have to ungroup (Object> Ungroup), release clipping masks (Object> Clipping Masks> Release), or release compound paths (Object> Compound Masks> Release). You may also have to do a combination of these operation a multitude of times.
posted by Rheal Poirier at 10/12/2006 
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