How to maintain font appearance when opening a PDF?

I have a single PDF which I need to import in to illustrator. The fonts used in the PDF are not available but I don’t need to edit the text so hopefully no worries – I just need to add a reference number and export out to PDF again.
The problem is that illustrator substitutes the font. Is there a way for it to just outline the text instead?
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Is there a way for it to just outline the text instead?
Yes, there is.
Instead of opening the PDF in Illustrator, start a new document then place the PDF. Then flatten transparency. This will give you outlined text with the appearance of the original embedded font.
A drawback to this method (other than losing live text) is that you can end up with a significantly larger PDF file if there is a lot of text. This is because vector path representation is not nearly as efficient as using type to form text.

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