Problems with saving PDFs to JPEGS in Photoshop CS2

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MFinchy
Jun 4, 2007
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This is a problem that completely baffles us all in my workplace. We all have CS2 Creative Suite on the PC. Yet mine and my friends PC, when you open a smallest file size PDF, flatten it, reduce image size then go to save as a JPEG just will not let you do it. It comes up with program error. But this doesn’t happen to all PDF files. Some will convert quite happily. Yet when my boss opens up the same file on his computer it works fine. This particular PDF does have a fith colour in it. Though I would have thought the flattening of it would eradicate that fith colour. I hope someone can help because this is a complete mystery to me
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Paul_D._Ferguson
Jun 6, 2007
Are these PDFs being created from MS Word via PDFMaker? There have been reports of this sort of problem with those files. Here are a couple possible workarounds for you if this is your situation:

(1) Open and resave the PDF document in Acrobat Pro, then open the PDF in Photoshop. This is the preferred solution because it reduces the risk of other problems in Photoshop.

(2) Open the PDF document in Photoshop, save it as a TIFF, close it, then reopen the TIFF document.

(3) Open the PDF document in Photoshop, select the entire contents, copy, new document, paste.

(4) Upgrade to Photoshop CS3. I have not seen this behavior in CS3 with any of the test files that fail in CS2.

Sorry you’re having problems, and I hope that this information will allow you to get past them.
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MFinchy
Jun 8, 2007
Hi Paul These PDFS are being made in Indesign through it’s PDF presets. Some PDF’s work some don’t. I shall give your options a whirl and let you know how I get on. Thanks for replying

Maria

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