Dave Harris Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 It depends on whether the text stretched. If you look in the Character tab, the Movie Magic text has a Horizontal Scale of 95%. If you change it to 100%, Illustrator can cope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks for that, Dave. So, at the moment, I should avoid stretching any text? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Art text that is both stretched and stroked isn't imported by Illustrator correctly. As a workaround you can convert it to curves yourself, either manually per-object just before exporting, or else by setting Embed fonts to Text as Curves. In the next beta it will be converted to curves automatically (unless Allow advanced features is checked). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Hi Dave. Just tried this in the new 5.5 beta, and yes, it works now that the text is automatically converted to curves. However, if the 'Allow advanced features' is checked, then the problem is - as you suggested - the same as before, but the old error message is also back when opened in Illustrator! Also, what exactly does the 'Allow advanced features' actually do apart from cancel convert to curves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 The checkbox switches off the PDF features that Illustrator doesn't understand. Currently that means rasterising fills and transparency groups, and converted the text to curves. If we find other limitations of other apps, I'll probably put them on the same checkbox. So yes, if you check it you will get the warning messages back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Thanks Dave, but the error message had disappeared in the previous beta. Still had the font rendering issue, but no error message. I would have expected the same behaviour. No? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 That checkbox was added in the previous beta, and if you had checked it then, you'd have got the error message then. I'm guessing you didn't, because I didn't highlight that the checkbox was added then. The checkbox is to work around limitations of Illustrator. You should only check it if you are creating PDFs to be used directly for printing, or for Acrobat or some other app that understands PDF correctly. Then it will produce smaller, better quality output. But if you load those files into Illustrator, Illustrator will issue warnings and/or render them wrongly. We can't fix Illustrator; we can only simplify our output until it understands it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Thanks again, Dave. I'm not trying to be awkward about this, just trying to understand what's going on. As you well know, this is an important issue as most clients use Illustrator, so it is essential to fully understand the relationship between it and Designer pdfs. Where is this check box documented? What limitations does it work around? It would be useful to know. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I doubt its documented anywhere yet. Currently it causes gradient fills and transparency groups to be rasterised, and text with a stretch and stroke to be converted to curves. If we come across other issues with other apps, I'll probably add them to the same checkbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nravenlock Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 (edited) Where is this check box documented? What limitations does it work around? It would be useful to know. Dear imacken, The Allow advanced features option is documented in the Export Options panel Help topic (try searching "allow advanced" from the Help menu). As Dave has mentioned, they'll keep updating the functionality of this option as they go along. I, or another member of the the documentation team, will try and keep up with tracking them in the Help but occasionally this might get out of sync. Many thanks. Edited October 21, 2015 by nravenlock quote added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imacken Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Ah OK, thanks for that. So it only has to do with gradients then? Is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nravenlock Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Ah OK, thanks for that. So it only has to do with gradients then? Is that right? Dear imacken, No, as Dave mentioned, it also refers to text (which has been stretched or has a stroke applied) and transparency groups as well. However, this is one of those times when the Help topic is out of sync with the features in the app - the devs just keep adding things so quickly! Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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