How to tell if a final PDF is editable in Illustartor

Hello All,
We receive final ready to print PDFs on occasion. Is there a way to tell if this PDF was saved out of Illustrator with the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" option enabled. We do often make changes in Pit Stop but there are also times going back to Illustrator would be easier. Sure you can open any PDF in Illustrator but you run the risk of something not being there or some effect not showing up.
Thanks,
Jerry

You could open a copy of the .pdf in a text editor. Then - for example - search for the string "AIPDFPrivateData".
If you do not find such a string, then you can be pretty sure that this .pdf has been saved without the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities option. And vice versa.

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