Outlining Fonts

[Jeremy_Aufderheide@adobeforums.com]

I'm trying to outline fonts in Acrobat so that I can open a document in Illustrator. I use the PDF Optimizer to outline the fonts. But when I go back into the optimized file, it allows me to select text. I thought it was outlined?!

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Or alternate ways to open a PDF in Illustrator without losing the fonts?

[graffiti]

If you don't have the fonts on your system, you can't outline them. If you DO have the fonts on your system, the PDF can be opened directly in Illustrator.

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Acrobat doesn't have a general facility for outlining text. Some
people see the options in the PDF optimizer, and think that's what
they've found, but this is part of the transparency flattener; no
transparency, and the flattener doesn't run.

Aandi Inston

[de_Siem@adobeforums.com]

What Aandi said is true, but it's fairly easy to add some transparency to a pdf via the document> add watermark/background option.

Just add an empty pdf set to 1% transparency. Now the transparency flattener will outline fonts.