Photoshop PDFs are terrible

[MDLU]

I have Acrobat 5.0 and it works great from MS Word. But it seems that, in Photoshop 7, if I try to save as a PDF or print to the Distiller, all the text turns into graphics and is then locked to whatever resolution the rest of the document has.

From Word, the major benefit to using PDFs is that text is rendered at viewing/printing time, so whatever resolution you need, it'll work. But graphics don't/can't work that way.

My question is: is there a way to keep the text as text in Photoshop when saving to a PDF?

-Jay

http://www.jaymunda.com

 

[pixl8r]

Sounds like you have apples and oranges and you are trying to make the same kind of juice from each one. There is just no comparing those two programs or their output.

One thing I might suggest is importing your graphics into Word and using Word to create the PDF.

Just a thought.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[MDLU]

that's what I was hoping to avoid. Word is so cumbersome for page layout and I like to do small things from photoshop, but if that's what I have to do, I guess I have to...

-Jay

http://www.jaymunda.com

 

[pixl8r]

I feel your pain.... you don't have anything else you could use like Pagemaker or InDesign do you?

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[MDLU]

i have InDesign 2.0. will that keep the text as text? i'm just starting to learn about that program....

-Jay

http://www.jaymunda.com

 

[MDLU]

okay, I tried InDesign and it worked great. I guess I'll just add that step from now on. A little tedious, but eh, if the product is quality, then that's fine.

Thanks for you help!

-Jay

http://www.jaymunda.com

 

[pixl8r]

Glad it worked out!

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[jessiem25]

InDesign Rules!