Photoshop :: Opening PDF - Rasterization Settings?
Jan 25, 2013
When I open a pdf created outside photoshop, (this is a technical image created on engineering software) I get the "open" dialog box with various settings. Under "Image size / Resolution" the default setting always appears to be 300ppi. Is this an indication that the file was actually created with 300 ppi resolution, or is this just a default setting?
I know I can adjust this and "add" resolution to the image, but what I'm trying to determine is the native resolution in the file to see if its suitable for use at a certain output. I've always just opened files in Photoshop and selected Image size to see if the files resolution was appropriate for use. Is this method incorrect?
Should I be checking this somewhere else as a rule? Bridge? I've selected the file in Bridge, I can see a dimension but cannot find the resolution. some light on this issue?, it makes me second guess how I've been evaluating files for resolution.
I have canon 70D photoshop cs5/6 lightroom 5 camera not supported downloaded DNG still won't open raw files even though I have put settings right in DNG 8.2
Working: Opening any normal SVG file in Illustrator -> saving it as AI, exporting as PDF, printing, anything. Behaves as expected.
Not working: Doing the same with a SVG file that uses filters. If the svg was not created in Illustrator (with preserved editing capabilities), it will remain rasterized in Illustator, no matter whan format you convert it to, export it to, or if you try to print it.
If you however remove the filters from the SVG, create a new AI file, paste the SVG inside, and then import or recreate the very same filters from inside Illustrator, then everything will work just fine. Clearly there's nothing wrong with neither the filters not the rest of the SVG, but just with Illustrators SVG importing capabilities (dealing with SVG filters).aside from manually importing/recreating the SVG filters from inside AI? And when does AI plan to add decent support for importing SVG created in other programs?
Example:
1. Download this SVG: URL... (disclaimer: not mine. You can also use any other SVG with filters, as long as it's created outside of Illustrator). 2. Open it in AI. 3. Export to PDF, zoom in -> it's rasterized. 4. Create a new AI file, paste the SVG in there, manually re-create/import the SVG filters. 5. Export to PDF, zoom in -> WORKING.
What are some of the things I can do to prevent rasterization of vector images when I create them in CorelDraw? Do transparency and gradients cause rasterization?
is there a way to mask text with a shape (ie text inside a square that gets clipped off if it goes off the square's boundry) without rasterization? All illustrator seems to want to do is to make a clipping mask the opposite way with the square being put inside the text. When I try to do it the other way it claims that is too complicated and will mess things up.
When I open a document that I've worked on previously, Illustrator seems to re-set its tools - presumably to default settings. For example the pen tool fill is white, the stroke is black, the point is......etc.
It's frustrating to have to change these back to the settings that I am currently using for this document.
This also seems to apply to the windows down the right hand side that seem to open in default as opposed to how I last left them when I saved and closed Illustrator.
I'd sort of assumed that Illustrator would 'remember' my previous settings etc and open in that way. Is there a way of opening with the same, previous settings?
I was wondering if there was any way to maintain stroke width (with antialiasing off) when importing/resampling vector files, like pdf. photoshop does this, i think.
i made a test case that shows the issue in the attached files. the PDF is a 1px-stroked square. when i try to rasterize it to 100dpi (or any dpi other than 72) using Gimp or any tool that relies on ghostscript for rasterization (imagemagick, mupdf, xpdf) i get a square with unevenly stroked edges. photoshop's algo maintains the stroke width in favor of maybe less optimal positioning.
is there any way to make Gimp or any other pdf->png rasterization tool (ghostscript included) prioritize stroke widths over positioning?
I've got a bunch of comps that contain vectors animating. Inside the comps, the vectors are set to "continuously rasterize" which means that they come out nice and smooth no matter what the size.
But I need to use these comps inside a larger composition, and I'm moving the whole comp around the screen with motion blur on it.
But when the comp is set to "Collapse Transformations", motion blur is disabled. If I turn off "Collapse Transformations", it appears to over-ride the settings inside the comp, so none of the vectors are smooth. They all look like pixel-based images that have been scaled up. Horrible.
I don't get it. I need those vectors to be crystal smooth, but I need the whole comp to have motion blur. How do I achieve this?
This is a 2D question, I'm not using any 3D at all. I've read the relevant sections on Continuous Rasterization and on Collapsing Transforms and, as is the case with so much of this Adobe documentation that I'm being referred to, it does not address my specific case, though I can't imagine it's that uncommon.
PS: I can't denormalize the hierarchy because of the way the animation has to work - the animation itself is hierarchical, therefore the content must be structured in a smiliar hierarchy in order to work (think moons orbiting planets orbiting the sun)
How to change the settings (if it has) for opening another drawing. because for example I opened an autocad file, and again i want to open another file, when I opened another file it will not display in the same window which I first opened, it is very hard for me to put my mouse pointer on the taskbar to choose that drawing and again return in another drawing, better if using the windows button inside the autocad. here is the image just to be clear on what i am trying to ask.
Can Quark [or Quark Express] open a CorelDraw file and preserve all of the settings like the exact distance from the curves or text to the edge of the canvas?
I have CorelDraw X6. I work for a small business that sells business cards and letterhead to customers.
I have been sending camera ready artwork to a printer. The printer opens the file with I think a Quark, or maybe a Quark Express, program.
They save the file in PDF format and then e-mail me the PDF file as a proof.
Almost always crucial settings like the distance(s) from the curves or text to the edge of the canvas has been changed in their PDF proof file.
For example, I might send them a CorelDraw file where the text at the bottom of a page is set .350" from the bottom of the canvas. The proof that they send me might be .4" or .5" from the bottom.
Today, a woman with the printer told me that their software would not preserve the exact CorelDraw settings when their software opens a CorelDraw file and that there is not any way for them to know the exact CorelDraw settings.
I find that hard to believe. How will Quark open a CorelDraw file and preserve all of the settings or are some of the settings, like curve/text setback from the canvas, lost?
Photoshop CS5 v12.1. Mac OS 10.6. I'm printing to an Epson R1800 printer.
Print. Choose Color Management. Choose Document. Choose "Photoshop manages color". Choose the correct printer profile that matches the paper I'm using. Choose Relative Colorimetric.
THEN, I click Print Settings...under the 4th drop downu I choose "Print setting..." again. Under "Basic" "color" and "Color settings" are grayed out as are some of the "Media Type" options.
Is this normal? The problem is my black and white prints are printing really badly. They have color tones. I've cleaned the nozzles on my Epson printer, done everything the print utility suggests. All the test prints look fine.
i recieved a prom pic from my daughter and i was going to print it and frame it, but 2 things happend.
The first one was that when i tried to print it it said it was tooooooo big 40inx60in so i resized it to 8.5x11 and it got very blurry, after about an hour i figured out how to get it sharp again (by accident) and forgot how i did it DOH!!! It was some kind of compairson with 4 of the same photo and resizeing the file from 9.5M to about 400kb and actualy adding some blur.
The next problem is when i printed it, it was so washed out it looked like an old 70's poloroid but on screen it looks great. Now I've read the color settings section but i think i might have set some settings wrong [U]and i don't think i fully understand what i'm reading . I know there are settings to either let photoshop take care of the printing or let the printer.Personaly i think i would like to let photoshop do it that way any email's or photo's i shoot will have a common baseline. The printer i'm using is an hp psc 2410 and the camera is a minolta dimage7i, is this a good camera / printer. I'm in adobe rgb(1998) mode and i think i saw somwhere in the printer software to choose between adobe rgb or the hp printer.Do these have to match.
Put simply how can i print it the way i see it on screen
I know ....long winded but i try to give all the info i can
way of opening images in CS2 where after opening they will appear in the middle of the CS screen rather then in the top left corner?
I can drag and maximize so they appear in the middle, but on reopening another image they default to the top left again, I would like them to always open in the middle?
I’m a long time Photoshop user but recently picked up LR4 to try to fine tune my workflow. I’ve noticed that after importing new files (RAW, I haven’t tried with jpg) into my library as I scroll through them (1-up, not in grid) the preview comes up and then after a second or so the WB changes to a much colder image.
Does LR4 initially preview at specific settings and then change to the individual image settings? Even if so, the final images seem very cool and I feel like I have to up the temp more than I should have to. My previous workflow was to sort in Bridge and then use ACR to import to Photoshop. I feel like I did much less tweaking of my WB this way. I feel like I’m starting from square one with LR4.
I'm having some problems with drawing paths in Illustrator. Everytime I draw a new path, this new path shows up in the standard settings. The 'brush defenition' turns back to 'basic' and the 'variable width profile' back to 'uniform'. It would save me a lot of time if I could change those standard settings into what I prefer.
When the 'up' arrow appears in a thumbnail and comes up with the message:
The metadata for one or more of these photos has been changed by another application. Should Lightroom import settings from disk or overwrite disk settings with those from the catalog?
What exactly does that mean? This seems to happen every time I export an image to PS (CS5) and return to LR. What exactly has changed? What settings are being imported if I choose 'import settings from disk'.
I installed and, when given a choice of extensions to associate with PSP, I selected all. However, later I changed my mind. Had to uninstall PSP and reinstall. This time, I did not associate .bmp or .jpg files. However, I noticed my .bmp icon had changed a little. Still, it worked OK, so I just let it go. Now, I used IrfanView to save a .bmp pic in .jpg format to My Documents. When I went to view the .jpg file, it has the window icon and I'm given the "Open With" option (have to pick some program to open it). I can't seem to get the .jpg files back to where I can just double-click them to open. **I hope I've explained this OK**
Anyway, since I have a legit copy of PSP 7.0, I can reinstall any time. Right now, it's still uninstalled, but I don't know how to get the .jpg files back to where they used to be.
With some posts they insert a image, the only thing I see is a box with yellow around it and a red x in the middle of box. How do I get to see images that others have posted?
somehow my settings got changed and i can only go back once. im talking when i make a mistake i can only delete the mistake once and then it chanes to redo instead of undo. how can i swithc it back to unlimited undo.
I am using PS7 and I am saving a transparent image for use in Flash MX. I need to preserve it. What version of PNG should I use? 8? 24? The best quailty while keeping the file size down is the best.
We are currently using G7 Workflow for our profile. I have a couple of questions concerning the color settings.
1.We are also not able to hold these settings even once we leave it as "Custom". It defaults back to U.S. Sheetfed Coated Profile. 2. When trying to set color setting with our profile, it says it is not supported by this version of Photoshop (CS6). It will set this to "Custom" instead of G7 Workflow. What can we do to fix this issue? Please see below for the screen captures.
Being unwilling to mortgage my future to CC, I have taken the plunge and bought CS6 while it is still available. This is on Windows 7.Is it feasible to migrate settings from CS2 to CS6 and if so how do I do it? I am not sure whether CS6 installation will automatically uninstall CS2 or require me to do it.
I changed my Color Settings in the Edit menu to 'Best Workflow CS4' which apparently synchronized my color settings, but the printed colors are now muddy and have lost their vibrancy.
It is a US orientated setting for US inks. I am in the UK and use Ilford Smooth Pearl Paper with the appropriate color profiles loaded. What are the recommended color settings for printing in the UK?? Is it Europress 2 which is what I'm now trying out?
I have started to have probelms with the printing pictures using the CS6 Print Settings box.
After I have selected all the appropriate Printer setups and set the Print size to 8.5x11 both in Printer Setting and in the CS6Scaled Print Size box I get the below Print Preview.Both when I manually enter Scale,H&W and when I check the "Scale to fit Media Box".
It leaves the top and bottom with a 1/2" white border at top/bottom.
I have upgraded to both Lightroom 4 and Adobe CS6 (both 64 bit Windows versions) recently and have been enjoying the new features. I have become more and more aware of posterization when exporting from Lightroom4 to Photoshop
Something I first thought was simply over processing in lightroom has turned out to be an issue with Photoshop. I have been following a few threads in the forum regarding a similar issue with CS5
The solution appears to be, set the the Advanced Settings of the GPU to basic. Which removes the posterization completely. I have a some questions :
1) Setting the GPU to basic, am I getting the most out of the graphics card? I have a NVIDIA GEForce, GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 .Im not sure in the grand scheme of things if this is cutting edge technology but it has served me well while on the older version of lightroom and CS6. 2) My workflow is using lightroom for hi-res RAW processing and editing in Photoshop. Setting the graphic CPU to basic will I notice a performance drop? 3) Reading the forums, on basic the CPU handles color management. Does this have an impact on the performance
Im happy to run the GPU at basic, I'm just trying to determine for the future if I would need to invest in a higher spec graphic card to move to advanced settings. But if there is no real gain running in advanced mode using this kind of hardware I can stop looking/considering an upgrade.
In Adobe's Bridge Reference, it says, "Here are some tips for automating the processing of camera raw image files:When you record an action, first select Image Settings from the Camera Raw Settings menu [icon appears here] in the Camera Raw dialog box. In this way, the settings particular to each image (from the Camera Raw database or sidecar XMP files) are used to play back the action."
Problem is, I cannot find the Camera Raw Settings menu anywhere in the Camera Raw dialog box, and I cannot find anywhere in the documentation where it tells you how to do what they're recommending here. I'm confused as to whether the action recording takes place in Photoshop (most likely), Bridge, Camera Raw, or the Image Processor. I was under the impression that, of these four, actions can only be created in Photoshop, but now I'm not so sure, since this paragraph says that while the action is being recorded it has to be selected from the Camera Raw dialog box. WHERE DOES ONE FIND "Image Settings" IN THE CAMERA RAW DIALOG BOX?
I found the Image Settings selection, but it is still unclear how I can incorporate it into an action. Can I invoke the Camera Raw dialog box while recording an action?
i click on the PRINT SETTINGS button and the PRINT button at bottom of window goes from blue to white but i don't get to the SETTINGS page.i can print the page, but it prints without my being able to change settings
