Trick: PDFs with Text as Curves when fonts are missing

[Wosven]

Till now, when I received PDF files and needed to modify them in AD or APub, but I don't have all the fonts, there's nothing I could do.
In AD, opening the file with the option "text as curves" do nothing, and APub replace missing fonts with other ones.

Aside:
It seems more interesting to open PDF in APub since visible bleed is possible and elements out of the page area are displayed too.
In the futur, AD will be able to convert text to curves when we have missing font.

 

Back to the problem:

To get the missing fonts as curves (if you can't use a well know CC app), the trick is to open the PDF pages in InkScape that'll do the conversion if you select the option "Import Poppler/Cairo".

 

You can save this as a PDF with InkScape.

Don't use this InkScape PDF as is, since it'll miss the color profile, and all the text is converted to curves, but open it in AD or APub, and select, copy and paste the parts you need from InkScape's PDF to APub/AD's PDF.

 

Next, you can hide or delete the text frames with the missing fonts.

 

Another usefull point with this, is you can add bleed easily when the original PDF miss it.