I was faced with a small problem the other day when my client asked me to design some pages for his new catalog using the existing photography and working files. I could tell his understanding of production was pretty basic so I feared I would get files in Quark to work with or worse, nothing but a few sketches and a Word file.
Long story short, he had printer pdfs to give me, coupled with a pretty sharp deadline. As I have worked with a variety of files, I don’t remember ever having just pdfs to pull from. Sure I’ve seen designers import pdfs into In Design, but not complete pages designed by someone else. So, my goal was to export images from pdf form in order to have decent image files to place into In Design. I am guessing many of you know the solution to this, so forgive me if this is “old hat” and thus, a snoozer of an article. I considered it a nice discovery.
Acrobat Pro gave me my solution. Under [Advanced], third from the right menu option you can find [Document Processing] and then [Export all images]. You will note, it will more than likely ignore PS clips and give you the size the image that it was placed at, but it does give you a jpeg and png option, which can be helpful. Just make sure it’s a print quality pdf, or you’ll get “garbage in-garbage out.” Best of Luck.
Fletcher
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