HELP! Working on a huge file in Illustrator CC2014 and changes aren't saving.

HELP! Working on a huge file in Illustrator CC2014 and saving as an editable PDF. I made revisions which appear fine when I view the PDF in Acrobat, but not when I re-open it to continue working in Illustrator?
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Shanco,
Are you saving with Create PDF Compatible File ticked, or are you using Save As and then PDF?
I hope the former.

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http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
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Please consider deploying a given EAR file on WebLogic Server 10.3.5 (part of JDeveloper 11.1.1.6.0) and changing the context-root for its web-module.
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- [2] ReviewContextRootSecondApp/deploy/ReviewContextRootSecondApp.ear in the (same) ZIP file
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- [4] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13702/config.htm#DEPGD172
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Thanks for your reply René van Wijk.
René van Wijk wrote:
You can use deployment plans in order to change the context-root ...That is what I tried and describe in scenario's (sc2), (sc4), (sc5) and (sc6) in this forum thread.
Because the application.xml file (in the "given EAR file"), added by JDeveloper 11.1.1.6.0 when deploying to an EAR file, doesn't have id attributes on its application/module elements, I first tried a different XPath expression:
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... you have to use a variable assignment in the right part of the deployment plan (in this case the application.xml) ...My observations I describe above (that it does not seem to work) seem to confirm the Oracle documentation [1] I referred to in this forum thread before:
"Oracle does not support using a deployment plan to change the context-root in an application.xml file. ... "
... By using an xpath expression, you can define which part of the xml has to be changed. ...The values for the deployment-plan xpath elements seem to be "peculiar".
Although it should not be a problem in an XPath expression, using single quotes (like module[id='WebProject'] ) instead of double quotes (like module[id="WebProject"] ) results in:
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Because an XPath predicate expression would use an "@" to refer to an attribute, I also tried to replace what you suggested module[id="Web"] with something like module[@id="Web"] but that also did not make a difference.
- [1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13702/config.htm#DEPGD172
- [2] http://www.consideringred.com/files/oracle/2012/ReviewContextRootApps-v0.02.zip
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