I'm surprised at the strong response here. I made the suggestion as
I've done it many times as anything but an act of desperation for
published work. PDF is a vector format that Illustrator understands,
and the results were just fine. The reason I did things this way was
that I produced the graphics in one application, printed them to pdf,
edited them in Illustrator to add annotations and other effects, and
then finally saved them back to PDF format for publication. Nothing
incoherent there at all.
Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <1160181797.650218.176650@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Kallikak <ken.wessen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Have you considered anything that lets you save in PDF? That can then
> > be loaded into Illustrator and edited the same as with its native
> > vector format.
>
> This is very bad advice, as it will a) not work at all in many
> situations and b) has a high likelihood of producing undesirable
> results.
>
> Editing PDFs in Illustrator is NOT part of a coherent workflow. It is
> an act of desperation when you MUST get something to print, you have NO
> time left before the press rolls, and you don't care if the final job
> takes a quality hit.
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