Either way, there’s no cheap or shortcut way of doing it I’m afraid. Lastly, they could just give you all the edits now, or use you going forward. If it’s only a couple of lines or a name etc that needs to be editable this could work, but anything bigger and it gets complicated, and they will almost certainly break it. You could use InDesign to make an Interactive PDF that has form fields that they can fill in. Illustrator can also edit PDFs, but same rules apply. But it’s clunky, costs money for a licence and the client needs to know what they are doing. Or you create in Publisher (please don’t do this, it’s not 1997), and they edit in Publisher etc.Īs others have said there are a few workarounds:Īcrobat Pro/DC can ‘edit’ PDFs. So they would need InDesign to edit your InDesign file and make a new PDF. Regardless of what software, you both need to be using the same for it to be fully ‘editable’. PDFs are universal so people can’t edit them and break them. This file can then be opened natively back in Illustrator by using. In the 'Save Adobe PDF' dialog box make sure you check the option to 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities'. When you save the file select pdf as the format type. Uneducated client, but not an uncommon request. Actually there is one way to make a fully editable pdf that I know of. The most common type of name I see and use myself is in the format of "myFileName_ai.pdf". I would recommend a file name that lets you or someone else know this is an Illustrator pdf so they don't edit the file in Acrobat or some other pdf editing software. If you keep changes the file will then open as you would expect any normal pdf to open in Illustrator.fubar needing work to restore. You will get a warning if the pdf has been edited outside of Illustrator to revert or keep changes when opening the file. This file can then be opened natively back in Illustrator by using Illustrators "Open" command or dropping the file on the Illustrator app (double clicking will open the file with your default pdf app). In the "Save Adobe PDF" dialog box make sure you check the option to "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities". Actually there is one way to make a fully editable pdf that I know of.
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