I've been waiting on a marketing company to give me images of the menu so that I can use the images on the sign. Fianlly got them but the marketing company sent them in a .pdf. file. How do I take it from Adobe acrobat and get it into a bmp or tiff format?
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
You'll need one of the myriad of PDF to Image converter software out there. Do a quick internet search and you'll come up with piles of them.
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Copy..Paste into your favourite program and convert to whatever you want?
Works for me getting PDF's into Corel.
Posted by Dave Cox (Member # 3517) on :
open the .pdf in illustrator, release any clipping masks, you should be set to go.
Posted by Talisman (Member # 1869) on :
What the Dave's said. Or just place it or import it into your program. PDF's are quite friendly Posted by TransLab (Member # 470) on :
... Gonna qualify that just a little bit, Joe
PDF is a great format, but it's not quite as friendly as it once was.
Documents created with acrobat 6 may not import correctly into older versions of softwares. Corel 12 has no problem with new .pdf's but Corel 10 & 11 do. I assume the same can be said for other illustration or sign programs.
When .pdf was introduced, the premis was a file format that would make a document truly portable, to be able to define the reproduction and editing rights of the end user and be able to be accurately reproduced worldwide over the complete range of print protocols and platforms then available. Earlier Versions of acrobat were fully downwards and upwards compatible, but all that changed with acrobat 6 when Adobe made significant changes to postscript which is the underlying code of .pdf
[ November 10, 2004, 06:59 AM: Message edited by: TransLab ]
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
I did open it in PS 7.0 and it came in great except... its 10"x10" and 72 dpi. Now I am supposed to take that and blow it up to a 8'x8'sign face. Ugh..Thank goodness I put on the quote that it did not include artwork.
Posted by Ethan Rutkoff (Member # 3802) on :
When I got stuff like that, I refused to print it. Told them I needed something at least 150DPI at 50% size. That was to run on a 72-96 dpi 8' Mimaki 4/color inkjet for printing billboards.
Also remind them that it is to be seen from 15-20 ft away, not up close.
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