I have scanned six Letter size images. I want to save them as Photoshop PDFs and create one PDF document with the six images as consecutive pages. How is that done? I am using PS CS and for the PDF document, can use Acrobat CS or Reader.
You can add pages to a PDF document at will in Acrobat. It’s very straightforward.. If you don’t know how to use Acrobat, read the documentation first and then post in the Acrobat forum if you’re still not sure.
Thanks Ramón, you’re right…it was easy to figure out once I launched Acrobat.
So I have a multi-page pdf document. Now my concern is the quality of the images. The images actually look good, but the text is definitely inferior and hard to read, enlarging it in the pdf window makes it worse. As mentioned above, the images were scanned at a res. of 72. I know I can go higher, but this pdf document is already 3.4MB. I don’t want to go much larger as it won’t be able to be emailed. Is there a way to make the PDF document smaller (after building it with higher res documents)? Perhaps I should ask this in the Acrobat forum, but I’ll try here first. Thanks.
That sounds like the best way to do it. But I don’t have the time (it’s approx. a 2,500 word article). I guess I’ll try scanning them at 133 and hope it’s not more than 5MB.
I see that I can do that. It has a minimum of a 200 res. image to make the text editable. Would that make the pages smaller? Right now the document, with mostly 150 res. pages, is 10MB.
Scan at 300 ppi and convert to bitmap (Image > Mode > Bitmap) in Photoshop. Bitmap images compress incredibly well in PDFs and the quality will be better than lower resolution grayscale.
To get very effective compression and good output, scan at 600 ppi and grayscale. Rotate each image to get perfectly horizontal baselines (ruler guides help). Use Levels to get the highest contrast and Filter > Noise > Median to get rid of stray dust and noise. Erase any stray pixels, tehn convert to bitmap using 50% threshold.
Thanks for the suggestions…that will be great to keep in mind. The problem with bitmap for this document is 1) it’s in color including sepia like photos. I’m doing this for my wife and she says black and white is ok, but then 2) the text and layout would be fine in bitmap but of course, not the photos.
Unless there’s more suggestions, I’m limited to a 10MB file or the text/layout would have to be done in InDesign, but there’s no time for that.
