I have been working on a document with many layers. I recently exported to PDF’s for proofing purposes and saved. (still with layers intact). I then moved on to other work, now when i opened the "layers" file, it has flattened into one layer. I did not flatten it myself.
Is there a way of recovering the file with all layers?
Much needed assistance to avoid losing a month of work.
Converting to CMYK flattens the file, regardless of "PS compatibilities". I just did this myself and was quite pissed at how easy it was to do. The joboption shouldn’t have been converting to CMYK and I still haven’t sussed out what exactly happened.
PDF is not the best format to use as a work file.
I agree 🙂 , and think this disclaimer should accompany PDF’s glowing reviews as a file format. You know, to protect us idiots…
Converting to CMYK by saving a PDF with "convert to profile (SWOP)" in the PDF joboptions. No custom preset on my machine has this option turned on, but I managed to do it using one of my supposed presets. Don’t know if it was just a bug on my machine. But I vote no on PDFs as working files….
I think that Converting to a different Color Space may always flatten by default unless you use the Edit menu/Convert method and turn off the Check Box.
An incorrect use of "Color Space" instead of Mode by me!
I always use the Edit/Convert Profile when changing Color Mode (because of the greater choices that it offers) and it is well worth it to attach a keyboard shortcut to that menu item.
