Retention of fillable form areas when editing and saving an existing PDF.
Illustrator used to retain fillable form areas when editing and saving an existing PDF. Pretty please. We need that feature back. It's wasting a lot of production time recreating the form fields. When you open and edit graphics in an existing PDF in Illustrator, the instant you save the file (not "Save As...", just "Save") all of the fillable fields are erased.
Since it's all Adobe, why can't they work seamlessly like they used to?
Dennis Bland
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Illustrator is not a general PDF editor and can’t handle everything a PDF can store.
Ai always 'imports' PDFs rather than 'opens' then (if one was saved in any other app, because otherwise Ai just reads back the hidden full copy in its native format).
But then you say it was able to at least leave them unchanged... do you remember what version of Ai got this broken? Can you share a simple test file that fails like this for you?
