Open PDF in InDesign not properly working when a vector image is present (.ai or .eps)
When we export a PDF from InDesign with the box "Preserve InDesign Editing Capabilities" checked, if we open the resulting PDF in InDesign, it is perfect, styles are preserved, guidelines, tables, Layers, Parent Pages... All is ok. (just as if a idml was included in the PDF)
However, as soon as we include a .ai or .eps anywhere in the InDesign file, the exported PDF can no longer be imported back in InDesign with all format. Styles are lost or are named "Paragraph1", "Paragraph2", no more guidelines, no more Parent Pages, tables are not like before...
We're trying again every time a new version of InDesign is out. This morning, it was InDesign 21.6 (Windows). Still the same problem.
Philippe Lanthier
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Example of a broken PDF that was constructed with vector graphics. Poor thing was just butchered.
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I am seeing this behavior as well in 21.6 on MacOS. While (to me) converting PDFs back to InDesign has never been perfect, this does seem like a regression.
- Parent page has been wiped
- .ai, .eps, or .svg are all ungrouped and removed from links
- guides, columns, margins all seem to have been reset
- paragraph styles have been renamed to Paragraph1, P2, etc
- Same with character styles
- PDFs that have vector graphics seem to get really messed up. I have PDFs that are vector graphics made in AI, many of the vectors are randomly reorganized all over the page and have their own bounding boxes.
- Some text moves/gets center aligned somehow
- Some line strokes reduced to 0 (but still visible?)
- Images that bleed outside the margins have been cropped/resized
- All layers removed, renamed and moved to Layer 1Some of these may not appear on every instance but were at least the case for 2 different test files. Some may also be expected behavior as I don't use this feature often, but if any of these changes are expected that's another problem lol. These all also occur on 21.5
