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Alright, now earlier you saw how to open PDF files directly inside Photoshop and Illustrator's no different. We can open up PDF files directly inside Illustrator and edit them as well. So, I'm inside Illustrator here. I'm going to head to File and then down to Open, and inside my Module 9 Folder I'm going to choose my Chapter 5 Layout. pdf, grab that guy, open him up, and I'm presented with this Open PDF dialog box. Now, how it works here inside Illustrator, much like Photoshop, is I can only edit one page of my PDF at a time. As a matter of fact, I get this thumbnail here as well as my page area down at the bottom here, and I can use these little navigation arrows here to go and find whatever page it is that I want to go and edit inside Illustrator. Now, again, just for simplicity here I'm going to go all the way back to page 1, that's the guy that I want to edit, and I just want to point out the message down at the bottom of this dialog box here. If you want to create a brand new PDF file, just use the Save As command. OK, great. So, it's page 1 that I'm after here. I have that selected. I'm going to click on OK. Again, I get that font warning there, that message that tells me that some of my text has been outlined. That's perfectly fine. I'll click on OK. Alright, and there's my file there. Now, what sorts of changes can I make to this page here? Well, one thing that I wanted to point out is something called the Outline View inside Illustrator. He's found underneath the View Menu, although oftentimes I use the keyboard shortcut there, Command Y, or Control Y on the Windows side. So, I'm going to choose the Outline View and what that does is gives me the skeletal view, the skeletal structure of my page here. I can see all the components, all the bits and pieces that make up this file here. You can see all kinds of individual lines that make up the objects inside this file. Now, why is this useful? Well, as I'm trying to select objects and select content inside my PDF file, using this skeletal structure makes it a lot easier to tell what I have selected. For example, what I could do is go back to Illustrator's regular Preview View, just by hitting Command Y or Control Y again, and what I'm going to do is single-click on the page here; this is with the Black Arrow Tool, the whole page gets selected here, but then what I could do is, let's say I'm going after this chapter title here again. I could double-click on it, and what that does is, that brings me into a group. How do I know that? Because I get this group indicator right across the top area of my document here. So now I'm inside a group of some sort, but I still can't select individual objects. So, I'm going to double-click again and now I'm inside another group. Now I have something happening here. I have the page title, or the chapter title happening here. I'm going to double-click again. It brings me further into the file. I'll double-click again, and what I have here is just groups inside of groups inside of groups inside of groups, over and over and over again here. Finally I start getting into some objects here. Now I might go into that Preview Mode, Command Y or Control Y and have a look at exactly what is getting selected here as I work my way through the document. So, this is just one such example of where you might use this Preview Mode here. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to go all the way back out to where I was here. I'm going to hit Command Y or Control Y to get back out to the Preview Mode, and way up at the top here I'm going to click on Layer 1, that brings me all the way back out of those groups, all the way back out to where I started, because there's something specific that I have in mind here, a change here that I have in mind. I want to change this chapter title much like we did back in Photoshop, but here we'll do it inside Illustrator. So, I'm going to choose File Open here inside Illustrator, and inside my Module 9 Folder I'm going to choose my new chapter title. ai this time. I'll click on Open. Dot ai is Illustrator's native file format. And, there's my new title that I want to use. There he is there, Drawn Shapes and Working with Colors. I'm going to copy him and flip back over to my Chapter 5 Layout and I'll paste this guy right in here and then simply move him into position, something like that. Perfect. There it is there. So that completely covered up the old chapter title there. So, there it is. So of course, you could continue working along here, removing content, changing colors, adjusting content, this sort of thing. For example, maybe I want to get rid of this little text message here way down on the bottom corner. I'm going to grab my White Arrow Tool, the Direct Selection Tool there, and I'm just going to click and drag to select that content there for example. Hit Delete twice to get rid of that content, and maybe what I'll do now is use my Save As command. So, I'm going to create a brand new PDF file here out of Illustrator. So, I'll just go File, and then down to Save As, inside my Module 9 Folder, there it is up at the top, it's indicating that I'm going to save a PDF file. So, I'm going to call this New Page. pdf, and my Format Menu also indicates that I'm saving it as a PDF file. I'll click on Save here, Illustrator saves up my work. Much like Photoshop brought up a PDF dialog box, I also get one here inside Illustrator as well. And we could go through all the options here, but in the coming chapter we're going to look at creating PDFs and we'll talk a lot about these different options that we have available when we're creating our PDF files. So, I'm just going to click on Save PDF here. Illustrator saves up my document here and we'll get this guy open inside Acrobat and see how it looks. So I'm inside Acrobat here, File Open, there's my New Page. pdf, pop that guy Open, and there's my new content. There's the new title, and of course the content that I removed out of the bottom right corner. So, there it is, some additional techniques for working with Illustrator and your PDF files.