MikeW

Likely a halftone effect was applied to a "regular" font, then traced to be vector, then imported to a font editor... If you are looking to create/recreate this effect in say APhoto, I dunno as I don't use it. The main issue using just APhoto's halftone filter is the "inside" holes.

Possibly/Probably related to the Form XObjects (scaling transforms) in the pdf.

Acrobat Pro can edit the text inside the puzzle. The only way I can get the puzzle into, well, almost anything, with all the text editable is by placing the pdf into InDesign and creating a new pdf. Xara Designer can be used for the original pdf.

Well, it's not really about duplicating what Adobe did in Acrobat. Adobe licenses the core code that makes Acrobat what it is from Callas that they use in pdfToolbox. But I get the point.

Serif could perhaps show inherited values in brackets. Dang autocorrect!

And then there's a single developer behind VectorStyler that's had a blend tool:

QXP added what appears to be rudimentary MD import in their latest update. Likely it will languish unless enough people will actually use it and clamor for greater support. Me? I just run a script in my text editor and convert it to tagged text.

And you, too, are in error. Aldus had begun a new layout application code named Shuksan. After Adobe purchased Aldus, in part for this new application code, Adobe renamed the code name to K2 and finished the coding enough to be released as Adobe InDesign in 1999. Pagemaker was slightly updated during this time and the main development ended on PM around 1991, fully ending 1994. Point being PM and ID shared no code. They were separate products.

One could slightly simplify Old Bruce's pattern using just the end of line character. Makes for a single OR statement: (-($))|(-\s($))

I'm one such person... I get a few Ventura jobs a year that I convert to newer applications. The graphics are often a bigger issue. Text is relatively easy, as long as one exports out as VP tagged text and converts it to QXP tagged text (I use a text editor with JS to do it). Many people who used Ventura also used CorelDraw for graphic elements. Which is one reason why I also keep CD installed and those files need converted (often pdf suffices). The .psd files are easy enough, but I also keep a perpetual copy of Photoshop installed.

The text was converted to curves in Callas. The outline was converted to shapes (ie, no longer an outline style) in VS. That in turn was exported as a pdf that was opened in AD. There is zero need to use a mask. Just copy/paste the logo into your working document are change the artboard size as needed in the AD file provided. Export as whatever supports a transparent background. What are you trying to use the logo for?

QuarkXPress and Viva Designer are the two applications that come to mind that can open/import and export .idml files. But if fidelity is a requirement, use whatever application(s) those with whom you are collaborating with use.

VectorStyler is a separate application. It is an application akin/like Affinity Designer from a different company. Callas Toolbox is a pdf viewing/editing application like Adobe Acrobat (Callas actually makes parts of Acrobat for Adobe). While VS is relatively inexpensive, Callas Toolbox is not. I have no idea what you are doing to achieve that last pdf. So, what are you trying to achieve? I've attached an Affinity Designer file. PoeticA logo large 2a.afdesign

At least with APub 2.5.x and trying 3 different pdfs, text was exported as text when placing a linked pdf. Dunno if it ever worked.

Probably/maybe related to Affinity applications not being able to interpret fonts.