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batch convert multi-page pdfs? (some leads)
I posted this in the main PS forum but did not get any traction after about a week. I’ve done some research and came across some promising leads (not using PS) but they haven’t panned out.
I’d prefer to do this in Photoshop but I don’t know how automate telling it to open & save *every* page as a jpeg.
People in another forum and suggested Acrobat Pro. Using Acrobat Pro 9.0 (multi-page) export works but text gets funky. Not sure why since the same Mac (with Photoshop) will open a given page (manually selected) and do a beautiful job with text on the same pdf. The other challenge is to master Acrobat Pro’s batch sequence process which I would try to learn but for the funky text.
Others suggested Apple’s Preview “File>Print>PDF>Save PDF to iPhoto”
Preview loses the file name in the process (which Acrobat Pro retains adding a page# suffix) but the text looks fine.Someone offered some javascript route but it appears to be way over my head.
Thanks in advance for any Photoshop (CS3 or CS4) batch suggestions.
Paul
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Hi Paul,
I think the batch processing options that were in photoshop are now within Adobe Bridge (under ‘Tools’) but I have not worked with this as yet so not sure on the quality or whether it will do what you need.
I had to do a similar thing last year with a pdf of lots of pages of slides that I had to link into an indesign file for digital print. I did this by
Exporting the pdf pages as seperate pages (in acrobat)
batch processing those pdf files to jpgs (graphicconverterX)This worked really well for what I needed to do.
One other thing to mention is that most text in jpg files will be rasterised but I am guessing when you say ‘funky’ its more funky than it would normally be for jpg quality.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks so much Lucy!
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Paul, try Ivan Image Converter v.3 to batch convert multipage PDF to JPG, etc.: https://ivanview.com/converter/pdf-batch-converter.html
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