Rasterizing images in Affinity?

[the-muffin-man]

Hi All!

I often have cause to rasterize images in Photoshop (for workflow and to fix issues).

Photoshop makes this easy - I can open a multi-page PDF in photoshop; select the pages I want; select the resolution; greyscale, rgb, cmyk etc - and it opens the file as separate pages in the correct format. And most importantly doesn't try and substitute fonts!! It just uses the data embedded in the PDF.

I've tried this in Affinity and it always opens it as an editable file and asks for missing fonts (which you don't always have).

Is there a way to make it act like Photoshop!!?

Thanks

 

[SlaveToTheMan]

Odd, I'm trying as well (I converted all fonts to Outlines first in Pitstop) but you're right - it insists on importing the page(s) as Layout files instead of raster. Even when starting the Pixel workspace.
There are a few standalone Affinity forums I'll go poking around. (Their official forum was closed and then converted to a horrible Discord channel)

 

[jwheeler]

Another option would be to export it as a raster image directly from Acrobat (see screenshot for where to do this in the export menu):

 

[loicaigon]

If you are using PitStop Server, you could flatten files or if it's specific pages you need, you could either have an Action List that targets that very page and rasterize it, or slit pages apart in the flow and use PDF2Image app for the rasterization.
Many options.

If manual, exporting from Acrobat should do as mentioned above.

 

[Stanislav Rakov]

You can rasterize it using Ghost Script. its free CLI app

 

[Tequilazo]

You can rasterize it using Ghost Script. its free CLI app

GhostFriend (Govert's Tools) is a GUI for Ghost Script and can convert (rasterize) PS and PDF, also halftone information inside those files at any given resolution

 

[zevrix]

If you're on Mac, you can use PDF Checkpoint to rasterize PDFs (including batch processing): Automate PDF preflight and conversion | PDF Checkpoint

(Disclosure: I'm the developer.)

 

[Tequilazo]

If you're on Mac, you can use PDF Checkpoint to rasterize PDFs (including batch processing): Automate PDF preflight and conversion | PDF Checkpoint

(Disclosure: I'm the developer.)

Does it only rasterize the halftone information embedded in the file when convert to 1bit TIFF, or is it possible to make any modifications regarding the frequency, angle, and dot shape?

 

[zevrix]

Does it only rasterize the halftone information embedded in the file when convert to 1bit TIFF

Ok I see. Monochrome ("bitmap" in Photoshop terminology) is not supported, sorry! Only CMYK, RGB, and Grayscale. The main reason being that, frankly, users never asked for this, so this option wasn't on the radar. In any case, if you have any questions about PDF Checkpoint please don't hesitate to drop me an email at support [at] zevrix.com.