possibility to open AI and PDF files in AI
I am working on color files for shoes using Illustrator in multi-page. It would be great if I wouldn't have to share the files.
But we are several people using the files, with different versions of AI, or for some of us only Acrobat.
So what happens very often and drives me crazy is that I can't open files (incl my own) in multi page, and even if I can open page by page (and waste a lot of time putting them back together) it is with a lot of clipping masks created by the app and which make it much less fluid to work.
Of course if someone in the team or outside has the latest version of AI, same thing again :(
Is it possible to avoid destroying the files workability whenever someone uses another version of AI or Acrobat??
Some non-Adobe applications are able to open multi-page AI files, so why not AI itself, it is company policy?
Thanks for your help!
Christophe
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Christophe, new versions of Illustrator can now import PDFs not only as single-page, but as many pages as you like to see (but placed in a new unnamed document then).
See, Illustrator is not a generic PDF editor. These are two different formats, partially compatible. Illustrator can store .ai content inside of saved PDFs to access later, and vice versa, .pdf content in .ai files — which is what gets imported when a user has an older version — because older apps can’t read new format and read what they can.
There are some workarounds, but all of them suggest you use newer versions. The team can’t make changes to released versions. Just upgrade.
