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Subject:Re: off topic - pdf file into pagemaker 6.0 From:Max Wyss <prodok -at- PRODOK -dot- CH> Date:Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:55:35 GMT
Lars,
if the PDF file is a version 1.1 file (made for Acrobat 2), you can import
it into Adobe Illustrator. From there, you can take out the illustrations
in a decent format (EPS). Then, you can place those EPS in your final
document.
You also can try to export EPS from the PDF ffile and edit them in Illustrator.
Copying (with cut and paste) is possible, of course, but you will only get
the resolution the illustrations were downsampled to.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering AG
Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
e-mail: mailto:prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch or 100012 -dot- 44 -at- compuserve -dot- com
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> Howdy,
>
> I need some professional advice:
>
> I'm about to start laying out a 500 page manual. Out of the 500 I need
>to scan 380 graphics. Then the client turns around and provided me with a
>pdf file containing the 500 pages.
> My questions are the following:
>
> 1.) the final file is to be in pagemaker, but he wants to use the
> graphics
> from the pdf file into the new manual. is this possible??
>
> 2.) can I edit the pdf file and keep the graphics intact???
>
> 3.) can I copy the graphics from a pdf file into pagemaker???
>
> 4.) if I could copy the graphincs out of the pdf file will it hurt
>quality????
>
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
> Lars
>
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