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    47 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    There is no true PDF Export in Illustrator, because Illustrator allows to have editable PDFs with .ai-content stored within. Other apps does not allow that, and some users heavily rely on editable PDFs.

    Attemps to solve this were made, but there is no clear solution so far. Still we hope to find one.

    The intended way to get a PDF (without loosing your data) at the moment would be to use Save a Copy command that saves a separate copy of your file to PDF instead of Save As which keeps a saved file open.

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    Shirley Oliveira commented  · 

    After exporting a file as PDF, it's still possible to edit its content. Many times, I forget to update the ai. file, saving the updated file only as PDF. Then, when I re-open it, its editable features are limited or else I lose the layers if its a PSD file.

    I suggest there is a possibility of saving a file both as PDF and ai. or psd. simultaneously, so that it doesn't happen so often.

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