Photos in PDF format

clw

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:26:05 PM3/15/10

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I have received a group of photos with captions in PDF format. Is there
any way to extract this material as JPEG?

I have PSE 8, Adobe Bridge, Picassa and Graphic convertor 5.9.

TIA

Charles

Al Dykes

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Mar 15, 2010, 9:07:03 PM3/15/10

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In article <clw-DCF8C6.1...@news.dsl-only.net>,

Photoshop will do it. I just did some yesterday.

You can download a 30 day trial copy for free.

Open the PDF, it should show you the imbedded imagges, pick one.

Let it open.

Do a File>SaveAs>jpg.

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ray

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Mar 15, 2010, 10:52:33 PM3/15/10

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'pdfimages' would do that. It's free.

Tim Conway

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Mar 16, 2010, 12:14:21 AM3/16/10

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"Al Dykes" <ady...@panix.com> wrote in message
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> In article <clw-DCF8C6.1...@news.dsl-only.net>,
> clw <c...@ohsu.gov> wrote:
>>I have received a group of photos with captions in PDF format. Is there
>>any way to extract this material as JPEG?
>>
>>I have PSE 8, Adobe Bridge, Picassa and Graphic convertor 5.9.
>>
>
>
> Photoshop will do it. I just did some yesterday.
>
> You can download a 30 day trial copy for free.
>
> Open the PDF, it should show you the imbedded imagges, pick one.
>

In PS CS use File>Import PDF then the imbedded photo will show. If you were
to use File>Open, just the entire PDF document will open without the photo
being isolated.

NameHere

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Mar 16, 2010, 5:39:31 AM3/16/10

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Open the PDF in Photoline. www.pl32.net As well as being a better raster
and vector graphics editor than PhotoSlop, it can also edit and compose PDF
documents. It's not just an excellent image editor, it has full
desktop-publishing capabilities. An interesting aspect is that inserted
graphics into PDF documents can each have their own individual JPG
compression levels, the chosen compression level in full preview while
editing. No need to save it first to see what the compression level is
doing to your images. With some images tolerating higher compression levels
than others this makes for a valuable feature.

Bigguy

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Mar 16, 2010, 7:20:29 AM3/16/10

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If all else fails view at 100%, Print Screen and paste into a photo
editor program.
Big images can be copied in sections and joined in PS.

G

Tony Roberts

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Mar 16, 2010, 7:47:55 AM3/16/10

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"clw" <c...@ohsu.gov> wrote in message
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It depends on what reader you're using. I'm guessing you're using Acrobat
Reader and not Fox-it for example?

It's been ages since I have had to do it in Acrobat Reader, but (as long as
it isn't copy protected) if you're using the 'Select Tool', left click on
the image and the image is selected. Then right click on the selected image
and select 'Copy Image'. On earlier versions like 6 (or maybe it was
Acrobat full version, I can't remember), I think you just left clicked on
the image (can't remember what tool needed to be selected) and it was
automatically copied to the clipboard. Something like that anyway, I don't
have it on my PC to try it.

Another way is to use the 'Snapshot Tool', where you left click and drag,
and it's automatically copied to the clipboard (which is basically like a
screen grab).