• Adobe Illustrator

  multi page PDF to Illustrator

  Posted by Anders Hattne on September 26, 2011 at 8:05 am

  Gooday,

  I’ve got to use pages from a PDF in an After Effects project, but in AE I can only import Illustrator files. So I have to convert them from the PDF to .ai

  Question is if there’s a quicker way of doing this, since it’s a 70 page pdf..?

  thanks

  http://www.ardillamedia.com

  Anders Hattne replied 14 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Vincent Rosati

  September 27, 2011 at 6:35 am

  You’re trying to reverse a typical workflow.
  Maybe you could Acrobat: Document/Extract Pages as Separate Files. Then if you’re on a Mac you could likely set up a job with Automator to batch all of the files to AI.
  I haven’t done this for PDF to AI, but I have done batch DOC to PDF.

  Vince

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  Les Nemeth

  September 27, 2011 at 8:21 pm

  So what is the problem? You can open PDF files in AI just fine.

  You can also rename a .PDF file to .AI and it “becomes” and AI file and opens just fine in AI. Select the page to open, and save it as AI.

  Is that hard?
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  Anders Hattne

  February 1, 2012 at 6:27 pm

  Whoops!! Forgot to get back to this thread.
  No it’s not hard. It’s just time consuming. Had a lot to do other than opening the PDF file at the right page and resave it as an AI.
  Done by now though..

  http://www.ardillamedia.com

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