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Problems opening a PDF
Hi,
I’ve just received a PDF file for printing, but cannot import into Corel X4!
It opens fine as a stand alone PDF, but say’s its corrupt when I try to open or import into Corel.
Any help to resolve this would be appreciated.
Jase
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11 Replies
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Try opening in Acrobat reader and then printing to Cutepdf the resultant pdf may well then go into Draw. If you still have issues it could be down to transparencies or font issue, when I get those I run it through Pstill (www.pstill.com) converting any text to curves, that normally will import into Draw 99% of the time.
Pstill is one of those programmes that I bought some while ago and has now become one of those must have applications.
Alan D -
Alan,
Thanks for the quick reply, but still no luck!!
I think the artwork was produced in Illustrator and saved as a PDF. The test wasn’t converted to curves.
Anything else I could try?
Jase
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Panic over. Just received artwork as eps.
All good
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You could also try *opening* in CorelDraw or *importing* into CorelDraw. Recalling a similar situation some time ago I was able to get at the content by one method when I couldn’t with the other. Worth a try if you’re stuck again.
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We are finding that many PDFs (perhaps 20%) coming from designers are created in a version of illustrator later than X4 and won’t open in X4, but X5 opens them fine (we use X4 since one of our output devices doesn’t like X5 but keep X5 on hand for importing stuff).
Perhaps it is time for an upgrade Jason.John
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Neil, I tried both methods, but with no luck.
John, can’t really see a need to upgrade just yet.
Thanks for all the replies
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I’m surprised Pstill didn’t sort it, I can’t remember the last time it failed.
Alan D -
corel draw converts the pdf whe importing, it is very good these days but fails on some items.
if u got a pdf for printing… then print it!
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quote Dave Rowland:if u got a pdf for printing… then print it!
He may have an older rip that sometimes has trouble with newer pdf files.. I use acrobat pro to either convert to eps or re save as pdf which works for me most of the time.
I find the pdf files made with indesign are the worst ones to deal with
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agreed!
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Agreed again, Considering that PDF is an Adobe brain child (and very good it is too) Adobe do seem to move the goal posts regularly and make it difficult for users to use it, especially when you consider the number of programmes in use daily.
Alan D
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