As far as I can remember, the controls are in PDF. The option is probably set to convert images to jpeg (there are various resolution options available). I don’t recall if there is the option to retain the native format (The last version I worked with was PDF 5).
I’d start with asking the question in the PDF forum and see what they say.
John Gregson
What you just described makes no sense at all to me. You don’t edit PDFs in Photoshop. In fact, you really shouldn’t be editing them at all.
You also need to get your terminology right. You can’t convert to Adobe and Photoshop. Adobe is a company and since you’ve mentioned three Adobe programs in your post, I’m not 100% sure which you mean.
Finally, PM 6.5 is over 10 years old and has been discontinued by Adobe. Photoshop 5.0 is about 9 years old. Since you’re running Acrobat 7 Pro, the computers need to be fairly new. It may be time to look into a more modern worklow.
I think you need to get someone who’s actually involved to post the EXACT workflow. With that I could give you more advice.
Bob
Stephen,
Basically, Marketing’s work flow is broken. If the images require editing, they should be working on the TIF files.
The PDF is a "terminal" format, intended for final delivery, not continued work. Yes, you can open a PDF in newer versions of PS, and you can edit it by adding layers and stuff. But then you’d need to resave as .PDF.
I would guess that the antique version of Photoshop you’re using is breaking things because you’re trying to make it work on a file format almost a decade newer than anything it was designed for.
Upgrade to PS CS2 and Acrobat 8 and carry on with life….
Hi Stephen,
I agree with Art Campbell everything should be done before the files are converted into pdf-format.
But belonging your problem: when I recall it right even PS 5.0 could open pdf and you could tell the program during opening process which resolution to use for this file.
This has to be done because the PS-pdf is not exactly the same as the usually generated pdf.
A usually generated pdf is a kind of encapsulated postscript file (not really eps but kind of). It consists of directions how everything is to be printed (on screen or on printer). When you convert a MS-Word document into pdf (by Acrobat 7.0) it will have the directions where to put the letters with which font and all the formatting options and so on. If your MS-Word document contains pictures in jpeg or tiff -format this graphics will be stored a little bit compressed inside the pdf.
PS 5.0 and even all the later versions (not sure for CS2) can only process rasterized graphics as tiff or jpeg. So PS 5.0 opens the pdf file with a conversion process. All your text and graphics are printed into the memory of the computer as the directions in the pdf prescribe. After this conversion PS can work as usual with the rasterized page. When you store it now in PS in pdf you will get only one big picture with the resolution you have choosen during opening (and rasterizing). The pdf consists also of printing directions, but now only the one for the big picture (no longer any fonts, formatting options and so on). This is also why PS generated pdf are usually much larger than generated by Acrobat 7.0.
The problem with the resolution: There should be a dialogue where you can choose the rasterizing resolution (e.g. 300 dpi). I think by default it is 72 dpi which would account for your "pixelated" picture.
Ruediger
