Buckrogers

Hi

My experince is limited when it comes to Adobe, so this may be a dum question!

I have an existing pdf file, which contains many images.
These images dont look very good quality / resolution on screen, but when they print out they are very good / crisp lines / very defined.

What I need to do, is using the graphic select tool, select an image and then either paste it as a new pdf document or paste into another graphics program.

I dont know how to paste it into a new pdf file.

I have tried pasting the image into Paint Shop Pro 7 and Adobe Photoshop 7, but in both, the image is of very poor quality on screen and in print.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Soulgirl

Have you got Adobe Acrobat? I did a whole online book in that... you can see it here http://www.ukscouts.com- not that it's interesting... but you can download the pdf file you want and open in acrobat and then extract the images from there.

However, I do know that PDF files are seriously compressed for speed of online viewing

[Edited by Soulgirl - 9/18/2003 6:40:07 AM]

Buckrogers

Soulgirl

I have:
Adobe Acrobat 5
Adobe Reader 5
Adobe Distiller 5
Adobe ImagReady 7
Adobe Photoshop 7

??

mj

Can you not:

open pdf, file/export/extract images as / jpeg...

extract the images to a new folder. then drop them into a word doc or something and print as a pdf.

Buckrogers

Hi mj

I have the option, export extract images as jpg, but it does not give me the images that I want.

It must be something to do with the way the pdf file was created in the first place. The images that I want dont appear to be extractable in the process mentioned above.

Still stuck, any other ideas??

Thanks

Buckrogers

Anybody know any persons working in DTP they could perhaps ask?

Mark Miwurdz

Limited knowledge here but I'm pretty sure you need Adobe Writer, otherwise think all .pdfs are pretty much view only.

Any pointers on the Adobe website?

Cheers
Kav

Soulgirl

Is the PDF on the internet or do you have the original file?

this could be interesting http://www.pdfgrabber.com/english/pr...?source=google

The Book I did started as 66Mb and ended up as 7Mb using Adobe Distiller... I doubt you will get any good picutres really.

[Edited by Soulgirl - 9/19/2003 5:07:12 PM]

Buckrogers

I think I've sussed it.

In adobe writer, you are able to save the pdf file as an eps type or jpg type.

Tried both, eps didn't produce the quaility output that I needed.
The jpg format did though.

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions.

Soulgirl

encapsulated postcript files are for printing purposes if I remember correctly from my brochure production days (god, that seems years ago.. hang on, it was years ago!) Ahhh, the joys of Quark!! Was your PDF an original file or was it on the internet then?

Buckrogers

Original.

eps, I was thinking convert the pdf to this, then from eps to jpg!