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Adobe Acrobat 5 Tutorials

Making PDF Files / PDF From Photoshop

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As I mentioned earlier if you are working in adobe Photoshop you also have the option to save out as pdf file. And notice for those of you they are familiar with Photoshop that what I have here is a very simple composite. I have, the background image of the picture used in and a layer of text with its associated text effects. So, I'm going to go to file menu and choose save as and instead of a .psd file format which stands for Photoshop, I might choose Photoshop pdf and I will also choose to save layers because I might want to send this to somebody who needs to edit it in Photoshop, so we might as well have the layer information. Click ok and it then brings up the pdf options. When you save as a pdf for a bitmap images like this Acrobat converts it into a jpeg compressed image. Jpeg is a lossy compression scheme so it gives you a slider on how much compression you want to run on this image. The higher the number the least compressed the better the file looks but as you can see from the slider here the larger the file. So you need to determine what the end purpose is. For example, if I needed this to be transmitted over the World Wide Web, I would probably want it to be a very small file so I sacrifice some image quality and make the file smaller. So I will just click ok to this and close my document. I have the directory open where I've saved it and you can see that it's written out the document right here and here is my original that I have saved as a Photoshop file. So I am going to switch to adobe Acrobat 5 and go to file menu open and open that document and you can see how it displays in Acrobat - it does a pretty good job of maintaining the overall image effect. So that's another way you can save files directly out of adobe Photoshop. her way you can save files directly out of adobe Photoshop.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 5
Author: Andrew J. Hathaway
SKU: 33249
ISBN: 1930519850
Release Date: 2001-08-22
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 117 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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