Opening PDF in Illustrator breaks up text objects?

Question

I recently had to convert some `PDF` files to `SVG`, and did this by opening the PDF in **Illustrator**, and saving out to SVG. The issue was that when Illustrator opened the pdf, many (but not all) text objects would be broken up into different text objects. For instance, the word "policy" wouldn't be one text object, but rather several text objects, "po", "l", "icy". There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. **How can I prevent this from happening?**

Answer 1

You can prevent this from happening by saving it as an Illustrator .ai file, and then "save as copy" for your pdf.