Importing a PDF with w/ more than one pic 1

[Lushchild]

I am creating a layout for a flyer and I was emailed a pdf file with all three of the pictures I need on the one file. When I imported the file, the picture on the first "page" of the pdf doc. showed up and I could not get the other two images to import onto the other parts of the layout. How do I separate the pictures in the pdf so that I can import them into the separate frames? I am using CS2.(I had requested pdfs of the images only and I keep getting pdfs of a layout for another flyer with the image on it. Is that normal?)Please, educate me...

 

[jimoblak]

Place the same PDF file three times. When accessing the file from your filesystem, locate and enable the 'options' checkbox. This will let you select pages other than the first page.

 

[eugenetyson]

Or you can open up your PDF and save the file as Tiffs or jpegs and then you will have 3 separate files for placing that are actually images.

 

[jdguru]

If you place the same PDF three times you’ll unnecessarily increasing the file size. You can open pdf in photoshop as eugenetyson suggests or open the pdf in acrobat, select the Item tool and Control Click on the image to edit image in Photoshop and save as jpg or tif.

jdguru

 

[jimoblak]

then you will have 3 separate files for placing that are actually images

The PDF file actually contains images as well. The only thing you are doing here is adding more work for yourself. Adobe has not designed its apps to be this difficult. The saving of separate image files from a PDF file sounds like a backwards workflow with QuarkXPress.

If you place the same PDF three times you’ll unnecessarily increasing the file size

What file size? Why should it matter? If you save out three additional TIFF or JPG files from the PDF file, you use up more space on your drive anyway.

 

[eugenetyson]

No actually if you save the image files you could be better off. You have full control over colour and image type. It's not a backward workflow at all. It's a proper workflow. Where placing PDFs is advantageous, it can also be a disadvantage in limiting your control over your work as regards colour options. 6 of 1 and half a dozen of another.

I'd really prefer to have proper image files in my document than just a PDF. Where if the file was laid out in PDF I would have no problem with using the PDF. But PDF is not an image format in itself. Saving to TIFF or JPEG or EPS may save you a lot of work in the future when it comes to some printing companies RIPs.

Whenever you are working on a file you have to think of who will be working on it next, or who you're sending it to. There is no accounting for being lazy and just placing down the way it came in to you. There's a word for that for people that just place in RAW word files into InDesign and think it's ok and don't proofread or check the styles. It's called "idiot setting". I'm not saying anyone here is an idiot it's just that sometimes you have to make sure the file is absolutely 100% correct after you are finished with it. Otherwise, down the line there will be complications.

Either placing the PDF or placing TIFFs and JPEGs is totally acceptable. It's just the extra step of saving the TIFF or JPEG can give you much more control over your workflow as regards colour options.

 

[jimoblak]

The only reason why it would be necessary to extract images from a PDF file to resave as TIFF is if you want to modify the color management. Since this was not mentioned earlier, I found it odd to suggest that saving of separate files.

You can always check the profiles in Acrobat to determine if one really needs to resave to another profile. The PDF files I receive are already prepared for me to just place and print.

 

[eugenetyson]

Ah yes, valid points. There's more than one way to skin a cat though. Yes PDF is ok, but what's the point in suggesting what others already have. Both ways are valid, and one is not better than the other (well almost not) .