Loss of text quality in Photoshop

JG
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josh_getman
Jan 12, 2007
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I have a PDF that I know is 300 dpi. When you view the PDF, even at high magnification, the text on it is sharp (i.e., there is no pixelation).

I need to crop the PDF. So I opened it in Photoshop and, for reasons I cannot understand, SOME (not all) of the text on the page becomes somewhat pixelated after I open it in Photoshop.

I haven’t changed the DPI or the color settings of the PDF in Photoshop.

Why does the very act of opening this doc in Photoshop cause this loss of sharpness? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much, in advance, for your help.

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Bob Levine
Jan 12, 2007
You’re rasterizing the entire PDF when you open it in Photoshop. You can crop the PDF in Acrobat or you can place it in InDesign crop it there and export a new PDF.

Bob
JG
josh_getman
Jan 12, 2007
I really appreciate your reply, Bob – I’ll give it a shot
J
JasonSmith
Jan 12, 2007
If you need to save/open photoshop pdf’s back into photoshop, you need to save as layered pdf or else pshop has to rasterize any vector elements.
JG
josh_getman
Jan 12, 2007
I see…thanks very much, Jason…makes sense
BL
Bob Levine
Jan 12, 2007
It’s important to note that Jason’s advice holds ONLY for PDFs created by Photoshop. All the layers in the world won’t help for a PDF created in any other application.

Bob

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