CS3: Importing a rotated pdf in Photoshop correctly

KM
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Kenneth_Madsen
Aug 3, 2007
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Sorry. It’s our print company. Not our inhouse printer.

If I understand you correctly then we already do so. When we create the postscript-file we rotate rotate the print orientation 90 clockwise.
Usually this doesn’t show in either Photoshop or Acrobat, but it’s important for our print company. Don’t know why exactly.
Usually the change in orientation doesn’t have any effect in Photoshop when we import them, but in CS3 it does.

One more odd thing about this is that the imported file during the "import pdf"-box shows up as 210×292 but when viewing the image size in photoshop it shows up as 210×140,5.
Now that’s weird…

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BD
Brett Dalton
Aug 4, 2007
You might want to create 2 files, one for archives and one to be sent to print, a pain but a work around.

Also there are a couple of things that might be affecting the opening in CS3. Firstly what are you cropping to in the PDF import dialog? there are several options, bounding box, art board etc. This may affect the size depending on the contents. If part of the page is blank then the "292" dimension may only be "140.5" when bounding box is used. For consistent sizes crop to art board would be my suggestion.

I did a test for my reference, it seems that CS3 is actually performing properly and honouring the rotating where CS2 didn’t. So I think that this is a fix rather than a bug. The swapping ofthe dimension is caused by the rotation, a simple rotation in PS should fix this (image -> rotate canvas).

BRETT
KM
Kenneth_Madsen
Aug 5, 2007
Creating duplicates of the files are a possible solution, but not one that we could use on a daily basis. We have thousand of files in our pdf-archive, and having duplicates of this would cause too much confusion for my colleagues.
The simplest solution – unless there’s a solution to the exact problem – will be to deliver unrotated files to our print company.

I’m using the Bounding Box-setting because we can’t the crop marks to be present in the imported file. There are no blank parts in the files we’ve tested on, so everything should be shown correctly and in the proper size.

Have you tried creating two nearly identical files, and changing the print orientation on one of them when printing the postscript file?
If you import both files then the difference should be visible when importing, and when the files are imported try to compare the image size in photoshop – they are not the same as shown during the import-function. The rotated version comes up with only half the height/width after it’s imported.
Hopefully this is not a fix but a bug.

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