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do not affect purely vector content. And, while fonts are embedded in

Illustrator native files and EPSs for purposes of display and print, you

must have the correct font active on your computer to edit text.

When you open a legacy file (created by a version of Illustrator prior to

CS) containing live text, an alert warns you that the file contains text

created in a previous version of Illustrator, and that the text must be

updated before you can edit it.

Opening Legacy Files

Because Illustrator CS revised the text composition engine, this alert appears on opening

les created in versions of Illustrator prior to CS. It is recommended that you click OK.

Legacy Text Editing Tip

If there is no option to have the customer make the required type correc-

tions and submit a new le, here’s a workaround that may help you deal with

the numerous pieces of point text: Save a copy of the Illustrator le as a Press

Quality Adobe PDF. Open the PDF in Acrobat X Pro, and use the TouchUp

Object tool to draw a marquee around the text. Right-click, and choose Edit

Objects to launch Illustrator. If you have the correct fonts active on your system,

you should nd that the text is now continuous and can now more easily be

edited and used to replace the original text in Illustrator. Discard the PDF; it’s

just part of the workaround.

You are presented with three choices: Update, Cancel, and OK. Adobe

recommends that you don’t click the Update button in this alert; text

may reflow, but you won’t have the opportunity to view “before and

after” to judge if the reflow has caused problems. Clicking Cancel

prevents the file from opening. Clicking OK allows you to open the file,

and leaves the text unchanged. You will be able to update text once the

file is open, with the added advantage of being able to check the status

of the text before and after the update.

Once the file is open in Illustrator CS5, another alert appears when you

attempt to edit legacy text. You are given three choices: Copy Text

Object, Cancel, and Update. If you click Update, the text becomes live

text, and is composed according to the rules in Illustrator CS5. This may

result in changed line-spacing or text reflow. Although the changes may

not be immediately apparent, you risk making changes that your

customer does not want. Thus, it is recommended that you do not click

the Update button in this alert. Choosing Cancel just stops the editing

process without altering the text; nothing happens. The recommended

choice is Copy Text Object. Illustrator then creates a ghosted version of

the untouched text in a locked sublayer named Legacy Text Copy, along

with a live, editable copy of the text updated by the current

composition rules.

Updating Legacy Text

When you select text created in older versions of Illustrator, you have three courses of action.

If you choose the Copy Text Object option, Illustrator then creates a ghosted version of the

legacy text, showing its appearance in older versions, so you can spot any unwanted

changes. Live text is displayed in its correct color, and can be edited as you wish.

Use the ghosted legacy text as a guide to modify the live text to match

the customer’s supplied file as closely as possible. When you have

finished, either hide or delete the Legacy Text Copy to avoid

inadvertent output of the guide text. If you have edited legacy text in

previous versions of Illustrator, you may find that, even though text is

broken into many small clumps of point text, the composition of the

original text is much more faithfully preserved.

There should be no issues if you open a customer’s files to edit vector

content, but do not modify text. In this situation, click OK in the opening

alert, and avoid editing the text. Illustrator won’t create the legacy text

guide or change the text in any way if you do not attempt to edit it.

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