Make 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' option be always disabled for PDFs made with Export As but always enabled for Save As
We now got a way to Export a PDF, rather than Save a Copy, thanks to this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32841790
However, these methods don’t really differ from each other, and 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' is still a thing for these exported PDF, bloating the size twice and leaving a way for these to be editable.
I want this option to be disabled and unchecked for Export as PDF — announced loudly and clearly.
And if Save As method is chosen — this 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' option should be locked as enabled.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Dina Dembicki
commented
I'm down for this. Recently started using export as PDF, only to prevent my files from being written over. I can't tell you how many times I've made edits to a PDF and then had to save it back again as an illustrator file. This is a welcome addition, and to have sticky-ness would be wonderful.
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Yes, Thomas, the team confirms the export format stays sticky in one session across document open but doesn’t stay sticky across different app sessions.
Even though this is a known problem, I promoted your comment into a new request, to let other people here discover it and upvote: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48819335
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Thomas Hageleit
commented
I find this a reasonable and important suggestion.
I Would like to add, that if that is being worked on, that when selecting "export as", there should be an option to have the last selected format locked in. As in: If I export as PDF (which is the ONLY Export I have ever done in Illustrator), that it is the default thing the next time I start my computer. Right now I have to choose this each an every single time, which feeld tedious and unneccasary.
New idea from comment
This comment was upgraded into a new idea: Export As should remember the last chosen format across sessions, after the app the relaunched