Bring back PDF Presentation...

Hi for some reason in CS4 they got rid of the PDF Presentation option. I find this a amazing too. Many times when I have lots of windows open this is the easiest way to combine them in a PDF ready to send to the client.
For the life of me I can't understand why you got rid of this feature.
Please bring it back!!!

On Jul 18, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Reynolds (Mark) wrote:
I hope everyone in this thread is aware that you are supposed to use Bridge now to do this. Its fairly efficient, and has a lot of options as far as I can see.
There are several things that make PDF Presentation and LayerComps to PDF superior to the Output Module in Bridge.
First, if one has several images of the same size that they simply want to create a PDF from at the native resolution, it is easy to do with PDF Presentation. Setting up the proper document size, resolution, layout, etc. in Bridge is cumbersome, by comparison.
Second, in order to create a multi-page PDF document in Bridge, you have to save those files separately in Photoshop, then jump to Bridge, then create the PDF. Suppose your protocol requires you to save intermediary files, they you may have dozens or hundreds of potentially large, multi-layered documents that take up gigabytes of space in this scenario.
Third, with LayerComps to PDF, the case is even stronger. In this case you have only one document, but may have hundreds of LayerComps. To create a multipage PDF document you have to export each LayerComp to a separate file, save them, navigate to Bridge, then deal with creating the PDF document in the same resolution, etc. Even if you don't have a requirement to save intermediary files, you have spend considerable time and used substantial hard drive space to create those intermediary files that didn't used to need to be created.
The Output Module in Bridge is great - but it isn't a replacement for PDF Presentation or for LayerComps to PDF. A common workflow for me now takes substantially longer, is more difficult to accomplish, and creates hundreds of intermediary files that I have no need of.
George

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Bring back PDF Portfolio option to Acrobat Standard!

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CS2 Error message.= The command "pdf presentation" is not available at this time.

CS2 and Bridge will not make any pdfs'
CS2 has been un-installed and re-installed twice from disc without solving problem.
I will download CS2 from Adobe as my next step, however my CS2 disc would have to be de-activated and there is no activation server for CS2 anymore.
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html.
System info:
Windows Vista
Intel CPU 2399 Mhz
Memory 4094MB
Does anyone have any solutions to bring back "pdf presentation"?
Also, is there a way to upgrade the raw plugin folder to be able to read the current raw formats?
Thank you
Barry
[email protected]

Did if ever work since putting cs2 on windows vista?
Does the pdf presentation work if you invoke the command in photoshop proper instead of bridge?
File>Automate>PDF Presentation.
I really don't think using the adobe cs2 download will make any difference as either your bridge and/or photoshop preferences could be corrupted
and you should try resetting those as they are not reset during a unistall/reinstall of cs2.
Reset photoshop preferences:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
Reset bridge preferences:
Reset Bridge by holding Option(Mac) or Ctrl (Pc) as soon as you click on the icon to start it.
ADD - If done properly you will get a reset window with 3 options.

Bring 'PDF Presentation' Back in CS4

There are several posts about how this simple script was a huge part of folk's daily workflow. I am one of those folks. Bring back the 'PDF Presentation' script. Your Bridge Output module is for entry level users, not for production level processing, and to add InDesign as a step in the 'recipe' to modify compression, Acrobat version compatibility, security, etc. is a true pain in the ***. Adobe, I hope you're listening.
See comments on:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/10/where_did_extra.html
According to John Nack, the development team had to "comb through older features and determine whether it's worth investing in modernizing them, or whether the time would be better spent elsewhere."
"PDF Presentation have been replaced by the new Output module in Bridge CS4...PDF Presentation no longer works in CS4."
"We felt that you'd get a better experience from Bridge, where you can see multiple images, lay them out in whatever order you'd like, preview the output, etc. It therefore wasn't worth investing additional resources in porting PDF Presentation to 64-bit and making other architectural changes that are now underway. --J."

> "PDF Presentation have been replaced by the new Output module in Bridge CS4...PDF Presentation no longer works in CS4."
The Bridge PDF AOM is just a bunch of JavaScript that creates UI in Bridge and
loads and calls an External Object/library to do the actual processing. Unless
they did something to the PDF AOM that makes it only work in Bridge, you could
write a script for PSCS4 the creates a UI and uses the PDF AOM as is done in
Bridge. Or it could call a Bridge script that does the AOM integration.
This is all theoretical, of course. I looked at this a couple of months ago
because I have a client (still on CS3) that uses PDF Presentation. I'll have to
get this sorted out one way or another when they get ready to upgrade.
-X

Acrobat 9 standard. The adobe inons on my desktop turned white, how can I bring back the normal pdf icons?

Acrobat 9 standard. The adobe inons on my desktop turned white, how can I bring back the normal pdf icons?

Please don't post the same question mutliple times! I have deleted your duplicate post.
Have you tried a System Restore to a time before the change occurred?

Petition to bring back "Print PDF" to InDesign

Would anyone else like to join a petition for bringing back "Print PDF" as an option in the InDesign Print menu?
I am on CS4 and my colleagues are on CS5 and they have no end of problems getting their PDFs the way they want them from the command near the Export options under FILE.
We work at a printers and in the end my colleagues come to me with CS4 to get the print ready files through to our RIP for making plates for litho printing.
The vital parts that are missing for CS5 is the option to choose the sheet size of the PDF and much more precise management of the colours and DPI/LPI.
We can't afford the latest kit for everything or to upgrade everything just because InDesign CS5 has lost a bit of functionality. I don't know what I'll do when it comes to my turn to upgrade and I know that there will be consequences for how we get our InDesign files through for printing. One big headache.
Why oh why oh why did Adobe decide to take this extra functionality away?

On behalf of Adobe:
I assume you are referring to InDesign running on under MacOS.
(1)     Adobe never “took away” any ability to produce PDF via distillation of PostScript. In what was described by Apple as a security enhancement, Apple themselves disabled the ability of Adobe Acrobat to have an automated “print to Distiller” capability via the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance on the Macintosh (this feature remains available under Windows). If you are going to complain to anyone, complain to Apple. This has nothing to do with a particular version of either InDesign or the Creative Suite, but rather, MacOS version.
(2)     You still can conceivably produce PDF via distillation of PostScript by producing a PostScript file and then either manually distilling it or using the “watched folder” capability to automate the process of distilling PostScript into PDF.
A “petition” isn't going to change anything in this regards.
However, even though production of PDF via distillation of PostScript is still available, albeit not quite as convenient, we would wonder why you believe that you need to produce PDF in that manner?
PostScript generated by InDesign is not optimized for creation of PDF, but rather for printing directly to a PostScript device. It is highly device dependent with no support of color management and live transparency. It is created for a specific page size, a specific device resolution, and a specific color space. The fonts are embedded in the PostScript file in a manner that is not conducive for high reliability PDF creation.
Adobe most strongly recommends that all PDF creation from InDesign be performed by the Export function in which PDF is directly generated from the InDesign document without any PostScript intermediary. This provides the ability to produce highly optimized, device independent PDF with full color management, live transparency, searchability, etc.
You state that the vital parts that are missing for CS5 is the option to choose the sheet size of the PDF and much more precise management of the colours and DPI/LPI. Sorry, but that doesn't make sense at all.
Regardless of the “page size” chosen for your InDesign document, you can effectively choose a different (larger, but not smaller, obviously) page size for the exported PDF by judicious use of the bleed and slug areas either as defined originally for the document or as overrides at PDF export.
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I am not quite sure what you mean by precise management of DPI/LPI, but neither for composite PostScript (which is what you would distill to get a composite color PDF file) nor for PDF export does InDesign support direct specification of screening parameters (what I assume you mean for DPI/LPI). If you print separations directly from InDesign to a PostScript device, yes, the InDesign Output Print dialog allows you to specify generic (not on an image by image basis) frequency and angle for each of the separations which results as setpagedevice parameters in the PostScript file (and subsequently ignored by the Distiller). And if in fact you are creating pre-separated PDF, you are really using a non-supported, strongly not-recommended workflow.
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          - Dov

Please bring back an option to Add Scroll Arrows!?

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...and go back and review that mail preview behavior too, while you're at it.
Thanks,
Alan Carwile

Alan,
while the two finger scrolling is a sometime substitute for scroll arrows it is completely inadequate as a full time solution. It is useless in programs like excel that can have multiple split screens and only scrolls in one at at time and there is no reliable way that doesn't affect other operations to tell the program what screen you want to scroll in. With scroll arrows I got arrows for each window when I split the screen. It is typical of apple's (and steve jobs) hubris that they would eliminate these. It's fine if you think it is more sleek efficient use of the screen not to have scroll bars, but why recognize the need for scroll bars and allow us to turn them on and not scroll arrows?.
Forgetting the split screen problem, on the large databases I have with 10s of thousands of records anything other than scroll arrows is unpredictable because the scrolling speed is dictated by the size of the database and the sideways scrolling with the track pad is clumsy.
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And I think they do this on purpose, to make people bend to their paradigm -- see Job's refusal for the longest time to let keyboards connect to the iphone.
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brian

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'''''Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4''''': https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-3-theme-for-firefox/
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Bring back a UK call centre

Bring back a UK call centre AND LET US TALK to a UK adviser. Custpmer service stinks at present !!!

ElizabethB wrote:
£130 that's appalling when they provide so little in the way of diagnostic tools/support We've plugged a basic phone into the master socket and still see the problem.
I know...
Depending on the master socket style, I presume you've removed the front lower cover and plugged the phone in to the test point, with a known to be good filter?
I've tried connecting to the livechat thanks, the wait is apparently 9mins (or 9hrs it didn't give the unit of time ) - any idea where they are based ?
To the best of my knowledge and experience, they're UK based
What does concern me is if the problem is at the exchange and is fixed as a result of ongoing work what proof would I have that the problem was a BT one. I think it's safe to assume they wouldn't release details of current jobs in the local exchange and network and faults seen in their OSSs to prove there wasn't a problem their end...?
Ongoing work? - Are BT Openreach working in your area?
From looking around these forums, if BT have discovered a fault, they're honest about it and will post enough relevant information for us to digest
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CS4/CS3 PDF Presentation

Installed CS4 Production Premium about a month ago. Recently went to File--Automate--PDF Presentation and it is missing. Should have read the forums before I got CS4! So I confidently went back to Photoshop C3 Extended and started to do a series of PDF Presentation document builds. My one page "documents" went fine. Had two multi-page documents. Go thru the menus ok and even see the page by page presentation during the document build and then no error. Come to find out, all the multi-page files have the proper "name.pdf" but have a file size of zero. Now this never happened prior to installing CS4.
Q1. Did the installation of CS4 actually remove function from the installed Photoshop CS3?
Q2. What happened to all the Photoshop CS3 plug-ins? Don't see any way to get a listing in CS4.
Maybe I missed it but was all the function removal from CS3 with CS4 ever described in the "What's New in CS4" documentation?

>What happened to all the Photoshop CS3 plug-ins? Don't see any way to
>get a listing in CS4
As discussed many times: Several features have been moved to Bridge, others are still available via an optional install from your content disc.
>Did the installation of CS4 actually remove function from the >installed Photoshop CS3?
No, but it may have updated the globally shared PDF libraries so they are no longer compatible with what the particular script/ tool expects.
Mylenium

Missing menu items in CS4 - PDF Presentation

I downloaded the 30 day trial of CS4 and I can't make a PDF presentation (which I do daily in CS2). There should be a menu item in Photoshop under automate and from Bridge, under tools, Photoshop, PDF presentation. I read through the documentation for CS4 and they should be there... why aren't they? I need this tool any ideas why it's missing in CS4 for me?

In another thread, this relevant exchange between myself, Anne and Rene occurred on this very subject. Had I known, I would have posted here instead. Ms. Guo, if you are indeed listening, consider putting this one back...because, specifically with open Photoshop files, it can't be pulled off in Bridge. Jbeezer points out another major problem:
"There is no control over compression and it yields a much larger PDF as in over 5x for my previous example."
Here is the earlier exchange:
Anne said:
"And it isn't called "Automate->PDF Presentation" in CS4 either.
It has been replaced by a multi-page PDF that you create from Bridge CS4's Output Panel and then edit in Acrobat Pro if you need to finesse transitions etc.."
I said:
I did find that in my hunt. It doesn't work anywhere near as quickly or as well as it did in PS CS3. Not even close. It can't deal with open PS documents (at least I couldn't find a way) and it can't be set to completely remove the "jpg'ing". I tried for a few hours to get it to output a decent PDF within Bridge and just gave up. Moving over to Acrobat Pro to "fix" pretty much negates the whole Bridge step. It's actually faster to completely skip Bridge and just make a PDF directly in Acrobat Pro.
There was no reason to remove this function at all. It wasn't broken and it didn't need fixing. Yet another reason to keep PS CS3 resident...particularly because the PS CS3 parameters actually does this trick (PDF from open PS images) faster and with better quality than Acrobat Pro does with saved/converted PDF files ...in one easy step. When you get right down to it, the function Automate>PDF Presentation wasn't moved over to Bridge. It was removed.
Rene said:
"For more info, see "Where did Extract & others features go?"
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/10/where_did_extra.html"
I said:
That's funny. There is no other information on Automate>PDF presentation in Nack's blog:
* Picture Package, Contact Sheet, Web Photo Gallery, and PDF Presentation have been replaced by the new Output module in Bridge CS4. Of these the first three are in the optional download package, while PDF Presentation no longer works in CS4.
* In CS4 we made some hard calls and retired a number of features. Some of these can be added back into CS4 (see Mac & Windows downloads) while others are gone for good."
"Gone for good" applies here.

Using a Ps PDF Presentation on a Website ?

Hello All-
I've created a Ps .PDF presentation or "slide show" using CS2. I have an icon on my website which you click to open the PDF file. I have problems myself with different browsers opening it, and all in very different formats. There is just no way to explain to a "user" how to open it with all the possible factors that contribute to the problem. Right now I can't open it with my iMac and Firefox (it opens a blank page), yet last time I did it worked fine, yet it opens on the laptop.
Is there a better way to make a slide show available on a website?
Here is my site, click on the dog above groups of thumbnails: http://axoplasmic.com/Targhee/page1.html
Thanks for any comments to better this slide show presentaion-
Rhobes

Actually, that's not a bit perverse, at all.
Jonathan's suggestion is a standard method of connecting to a server.
(null cable between the computer serial ports)
... see the Solaris man pages.
man tip
TeraTerm and Hyperterminal are customarily used on a PC running some dialect of Windows.
The 'tip' command is all that's necessary between Solaris systems.
PS/2 is not a serial connection, but is a keyboard/mouse interface 'invented' by IBM when they offered their XT-class PS/2 line of desktop systems, back in the 1980's.
I found this next link by using Google:
http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/computer/ps2/
The smaller DIN ports were more compact than the AT-class keyboard ports and the mouse moved from a serial port to a dedicated mouse port.
Serial communication devices are not keyboards, per se,
and keyboards are not serial communication devices.
You need other hardware in between to translate what the human being sends, and another computer is a common method to accomplish that translation.
Having said all that ...
Since you cannot change the dedicated console hardware,
I suggest you go to the manufacturer of that console equipment
and have them suggest some sort of serial-to-serial interface lash-up.

Automate PDF Presentation stopped working

I use the Automate -> PDF Presentation function all the time, and it suddenly isn't doing anything. It lets me into the dialogue to set everything up, and it looks normal, but when I hit "save" nothing happens. I've tried going back to files I've used in the past to create multi-page PDF documents and still nothing.
I have Photoshop 3 v. 10.0.1 for Macintosh OS X 10.6.6 and Adobe Reader 8.2.6
Thanks for any help.
Christina

Yes I support this. The ability to create multiple page PDF's directly from Photoshop should never have been removed.
Looks like at one point someone in management at Adobe had the smart idea that Bridge would be some kind of 'hub' that every user would see the sense in using. A kind of asset management alternative to the Operating System. Never really took off. Why?- because the OS got considerably better at previewing images and assets. Well for some of us. And Bridge itself had too much overhead.

Bring back PDF Presentation...

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