Importing Line Drawings - JPG, PDF, Whatever works?

apologies length, i've been doing lot of experimenting no avail.

 

if question acrobat group, please let me know.

using cs2 in xp (yeah, know: new system. don't think our network handle newer , "there isn't money in budget")

 

i inherited documentation system documents dating 90s , in microsoft word. lot of images line drawings, many apparently scanned pdf camera tool, , there's bunch of pixelation on of them.

 

one day opened illustrator instead of photoshop (oops) , when copied decent drawing out of ms word 2003 , pasted illustrator…poof - paths (some compound, paths). yay!! able work them.

 

the same thing works when print dwg file pdf (adobe pdf, have acrobat 9 pro) , opened in illustrator: everything's stroke!

 

i having time. computer crashed , i'm on xp running office 2007 , copy word/open in illustrator thing doesn't work some, others (especially lots of text boxes , shapes created in word).

 

the print dwg pdf open in illustrator still yields editable vector strokes.

 

so tried printing word document pdf , opening in cs2: no strokes

i tried copying image, opening in photoshop cs2 , printing pdf , opening in cs2: no strokes

i tried copying image, opening in photoshop cs2 , creating working path out of exporting cs2: no strokes (or, in 1 case, got strokes looked nothing lines needed)

 

i tried live trace , live paint (with , without using bridge), straight lines end varying thicknesses , end 2 paths of lines (one outside of line, 1 inside, seems). opening drawing in photoshop , editing needed make sure lines #000000 , rest #ffffff doesn't make live trace or live paint work better.

 

 

is there print pdf setting or anyting makes artwork (again: line drawings) more amenable being opened strokes?

 

 

thanks,

solon

no. if paths exist becuase orginally created paths. there's no pdf setting or option turn pixels vectors.

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