Crawling PDFs created by LiveCycle

I'm trying to crawl LiveCycle PDFs using SharePoint 2010 or FAST for SharePoint 2010 and have not been able to extract any document content using the Adobe iFilter (have tried versions 9 and 11). The only text that comes through is:
To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html
Text from regular PDFs is indexed with no problems.
Is there a trick to indexing LiveCycle PDFs?

I understand this is no help, but Illustrator is not a pdf editor. This is why you can get unexpected results when importing a pdf in Illustrator.
If you really need to edit a pdf you could use Acrobat or Neo, and there are some more out there, just look around on the net:
http://www.google.be/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=pdf+editor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc= &ei=y6S3Tt-kOtSHhQe28fyiBA
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