PDF to InDesign conversion notes

When converting PDFs to editableInDesign files, please note these important points:

• Convert multiple PDFs from any source, including files created in Illustrator, Photoshop, Express, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Apple Numbers, Canva, and more.
• Preserve rich formatting such as strikethrough, superscript and subscript, baseline shift, underline, tables, special characters, hyperlinks, nested lists, spot colors, and gradients.
• Create Paragraph and Character Styles automatically during PDF-to-InDesign conversion. This will not work if InDesign detects more than 80 unique styles during the PDF-to-InDesign conversion process.
• Retain advanced PDF effects, including drop shadows from InDesign, with full or partial support for object opacity, blending modes, and optimized multi-frame text.
• Group related paragraphs into a single text frame for cleaner layouts.
• Use Preserve InDesign Editing Capabilities when exporting PDFs from InDesign to accurately recreate the original InDesign file.

Limitations

• Supports only PDFs up to 200 pages and 150 MB.
• Does not support scanned, OCR-based, password-protected, corrupted, or malformed PDFs, especially those created from unreliable sources.
• The API does not support documents that use advanced bullets, numbering, or complex table features.