In message <44607CEB.6040605@xxxxxxxx> Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Samuel Kock wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clive Bonsall" <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> >> To: <artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:00 PM >> Subject: Re: [artworks] PDF: When black isn't really black >> >>> Well, you might have told me how. It's just taken me 30 seconds to >>> work it out ... Object>Flatten transparency first, then it works. >>> Perhaps it's time to buy a manual for CS2 -- all this trial and error >>> stuff is doing my head in ;) >>> Thanks (to you and Martin) for putting me straight ... I'll take back >>> what I said about the need for an improved Illustrator importer for AW2. >> >> Uhm, that is just because I have never edited a PDF with transparency in >> CS2, so I did not know about that option! Thanks for letting us know >> about it, though, for future reference... :) > > Neither have I, knowingly that is ... Whenever I export files from AW2 > to Illustrator, they invariably contain hatch fills. Hatch fills are exported as individual shapes, so they are irrelevant. > I wouldn't have expected the "flatten transparency" option in CS2 to > apply. However, this seems to be the only way I can make an AW2 PDF > editable in Illustrator. Perhaps Martin can offer an explanation? Sorry, I have never even seen Illustrator CS2. Martin -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Wuerthner MW Software lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------