Yes thanks, gwpriester, But I was trying to avoid from converting to editable shapes because im working on projects that AI users
may have to collaborate on. And editing text is part of it.

As far as PDF files, AI does utilize PDF files but does not open multi-page PDF's. It only opens one page. A major flaw in my eyes for Adobe and gives Xara a great advantage. And one would have to create Artboards out of each PDF page to accomplish this.
This takes unwanted time.


I as a Xara advocate, have had many debates with Ai and PS users about Xara as a professional program.
I have PS, AI, Affinity Photo, and Xara. Xara is by far the best in my eyes for speed and ability and is my goto program.

Perhaps Xara/Magix will look into this soon. This would be a beneficial thing for Xara.
This, and also transparency interpretation. These things get strengthened and Xara has gold.