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OK, it gets indeed complicated -- I must admit that I have not done very thorough documentation check, but is the behaviour you illustrated so well in your screencast documented anywhere? Now it makes me wonder what happens when the macOS Universal Control gets in the way.

Ha, that explains everything! Thank you!

Thank you again! The comment about resterization in the passthrough mode makes some sens, although I would still expect color picker to act as expected. For example, if I place an 8-bit grayscale TIFF in the same document, the color picker shows CMYK values (only K-channel utilized) the way I would expect. Is it because without the interpretation AD assumes the deafult DeviceRGB (especially that both can be used at the same time in PDF)? Anyway, still trying to find a workaround to the ligatures hickup 🙂

OK, so to add to what I wrote (perhaps someone may find it useful): indeed the culprit is the macOS Universal Conrol -- disabling it has the desired effect of PDF being embeded, and I can choose which PDF passthrough mode to use. Now interestingly, what see is that: if I select "Passthrough" then ligatures, etc. are preserved as in the original PDF, however the color is still not CMYK (my AD document is set to CMYK/8 and I use CMYK sliders and the color picker to check the CMYK values of the font). If I select "Interpret", then I am getting correct CMYK value for the font, BUT, ligatures get enabled and there seems to be no way to disable them. Moreover, the "Interpret" seems to be ignoring whatever defaults I saved for the "Typography" tab (I am ceating new document, then I am setting Typography options and finally I go "Edit->Defaults->Save". In summary, I can either have disabled ligatures or properfy set the text color but not both 😞 Again, any help will be much appreciated...

Thank you -- this is extremely useful and got me on the right track! I will report more soon (as soon as I get to my home office and be able to do more tests). In short, I think the entire issue is due to how drug-n-drop works in my multi-computer setup. Something I did not mention earlier: the PDF is generated on one macOS machine and then I drag-n-drop it to AD running on another (different) macOS machine. I am essentially using the macOS Universal Control, which clearly must be either messing up the document I am dragging or is confusing the AD import feature (the PDF seems to be indeed opened for editing instead of being placed, e.g., I do not see "Embeded document" menu and the "PDF Passthrough" selector the way I now realize it should appear).

I have a text-only PDF in CMYK (the entire text uses the K chanel only and is C:0,M:0,Y:0,K:0.75, the PDF has DeviceCMYK space). Now, I am importing this PDF into my document in AD 1.10.8 (under macOS I am dragging it from Finder into the target artboard). My AD dcument has CMYK/8 colorspace with "Convert" option turned on (also my prefered color profile assigned). The PDF imports fine in the sense that the text (glyphs), kern, line breaks, fonts and so on are recognized correctly. However, the imported text instead of being "K only" uses full CMYK colors (as if it was imported as RGB). This is problematic as each time I import I have to correct the color. Any suggestion how to "force" AD to preserve CMYK colors from the PDF? Another question: as I mentioned, the text imports fine (almost perfectly). However, by default AD enables ligatures and contextual alternates (even though they are not enabled in the PDF). Is there a way to have them disabled by default? Again, I have to select the imported text and then disable them via Character/Typography tab. Thank you!