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When opening PDFs in Photoshop the dialogue box's page options always defaults to Crop to Bounding Box. I want it to default to Media Box. How do I set the default? I'm sure there's a setting somewhere if one drills down a bit.
bigger question is why are you rasterizing pdf files in photoshop?
bigger question is why are you rasterizing pdf files in photoshop?
Some clients have aggressive spam or virus filters on their email and PDF files are rejected out of hand or go to a quarantine folder, where as JPEG/GIF files make it through. PDF file MIME type appears to be "application" which is a hurdle.
Some clients are not "sophisticated" enough to have Acrobat Reader, or their IT Departments do not let them install it etc.
There are problems with using the Acrobat export image option, it does not anti-alias and text and vectors often look like crap. This means that one then has to export to a higher resolution and resample down to fudge "anti-aliasing".
Additionally, one can't choose what is exported from Acrobat (bounding box, trim box, media box etc).
The problems with opening vector/raster PDF files into Photoshop for creating raster email "visual drafts" are that Photoshop can often crash if the parser does not like something in the PDF.
Photoshop uses the same PDF library that Acrobat does to read/write documents. So any PDF that opens up in Acrobat will open up in the "matching" version of Photoshop.
Export image uses the same anti-aliasing settings that are used for rendering to screen. What version of Acrobat are you using?
Do you really have clients that meet such criteria or are you speculating? I would LOVE to speak to a specific person/IT dept/etc. that has adopted either (or both) of these two scenarios.
We export what you see on screen - that's the Crop box. I could see the use case for TrimBox, but not the others. Can you expound on why the other options would make sense from Acrobat?
OK, be that as it may, PDF files created by myself in InDesign CS3, or PDF supplied by third parties can crash Photoshop CS3 (Tiger, PPC, G5).
I am running Acrobat 9 Pro (9.4.0) on Tiger on a PPC G5.
Yeah, just tried this - I see the difference. I think PSD may be adding some of their own anti-aliasing above and beyond what we do, but I'll investigate.
I wonder if it's thw virus scanner for Exchange. It wouldn't be the first time a virus scanner screwed up an email...
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