Acrobat stripping out clipping paths from jpegs in batch processing

Acrobat 8.
I'm using the batch processing feature for watermarking both
fpo jpegs (and low res pdfs) and I've noticed that when saving to
jpeg, clipping paths in the original jpegs are lost.
How do I get acrobat to retain the clipping paths?
Thanks,
TGMike.

Hi,
This isn't really the best place to post your problem as this
is the forum for the acrobat.com service. I would advise you to
check out the regular Acrobat forums at
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbeda8b/

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Unfortunatelly, LR doesn't work with layers or sellections done in PS. <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > Hello, > > I've imported some tiff with embedded clipping paths from photoshop to > lightroom. After an export these paths are missing in the tiffs. Is there > a possibility to retain the paths in the tiffs? > > regards, frank > > using lightroom-1.4.1/macos

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