Editing Flipped Image in PDF File using Photoshop

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Mike Schumann
Apr 15, 2007
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I have a pdf file that was created by Quark 5.0 using Distiller. One of the picture boxes in the original Quark document has an image that is flipped horizontally.

If I try to edit the picture in acrobat so that I can apply a SNAP curve to it, when Photoshop opens the image, the image opens with Pixel Aspect Ratio correction set. The image is a thin vertical line. If I turn off Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction, the un-flipped image is displayed.

If I then exit Photoshop, saving the image, the original image in the pdf file disappears.

What is going on? How can I fix this, or do I have to flip the original image before I use it in Quark?

Thanks,

Mike Schumann


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Tacit
Apr 16, 2007
In article <4621a448$0$16272$>,
"Mike Schumann" wrote:

What is going on? How can I fix this, or do I have to flip the original image before I use it in Quark?

Quark has a button in the Measurements palette which will flip an image inside its picture box.

Do not edit a Quark PDF in Photoshop. The text and linework in the PDF will be rasterized (turned to pixels).


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Mike Schumann
Apr 16, 2007
I’m not editing the entire pdf. I am only editing the image that is imbedded in the pdf (tools/advanced object edit).

Mike Schumann

"tacit" wrote in message
In article <4621a448$0$16272$>,
"Mike Schumann" wrote:

What is going on? How can I fix this, or do I have to flip the original image before I use it in Quark?

Quark has a button in the Measurements palette which will flip an image inside its picture box.

Do not edit a Quark PDF in Photoshop. The text and linework in the PDF will be rasterized (turned to pixels).


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Tacit
Apr 17, 2007
In article <4623bbcd$0$16357$>,
"Mike Schumann" wrote:

I’m not editing the entire pdf. I am only editing the image that is imbedded in the pdf (tools/advanced object edit).

Rather than going trough the hassle, why not just flip the image in Quark and recreate the PDF? Likely take less time…


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Mike Schumann
Apr 17, 2007
I did flip the image in Quark. That makes it impossible to edit the image after I create the pdf.

Mike Schumann

"tacit" wrote in message
In article <4623bbcd$0$16357$>,
"Mike Schumann" wrote:

I’m not editing the entire pdf. I am only editing the image that is imbedded in the pdf (tools/advanced object edit).

Rather than going trough the hassle, why not just flip the image in Quark and recreate the PDF? Likely take less time…


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Tacit
Apr 18, 2007
In article <4624bd56$0$16399$>,
"Mike Schumann" wrote:

I did flip the image in Quark. That makes it impossible to edit the image after I create the pdf.

Interesting. I don’t generally edit PDFs after I create them (and in any event I’ve abandoned Quark for InDesign), so I haven’t encountered that issue.

Is there a reason you edit the PDF itself, rather than reconstructing it?


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Papa Joe
Apr 18, 2007
On 2007-04-15 01:57:37 -0300, "Mike Schumann" said:

I have a pdf file that was created by Quark 5.0 using Distiller. One of the picture boxes in the original Quark document has an image that is flipped horizontally.

If I try to edit the picture in acrobat so that I can apply a SNAP curve to it, when Photoshop opens the image, the image opens with Pixel Aspect Ratio correction set. The image is a thin vertical line. If I turn off Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction, the un-flipped image is displayed.
If I then exit Photoshop, saving the image, the original image in the pdf file disappears.

What is going on? How can I fix this, or do I have to flip the original image before I use it in Quark?

Thanks,

Mike Schumann

If you didn’t use Quark’s postcript parser (export to PDF) and made a ..ps and distilled afterwards… Illustrator might open it. Did you try opening the PDF in illustrator? You’ll also need the original fonts. If you can select the image somehow , you can then copy/paste into photoshop to edit and replace the image in illustrator again. After just make a PDF from the illy file.


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