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"PDF Presentation have been replaced by the new Output module in Bridge CS4...PDF Presentation no longer works in CS4."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 "PDF Presentation have been replaced by the new Output module in Bridge CS4...PDF Presentation no longer works in CS4."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

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PDF Presentation in CS4

How can I make a PDF Presentation in Photoshop CS4 as I used to be able to do in CS3? I still have both versions installed. Is there some file that I can drag from CS3 into CS4? I can't find anything called PDF Presentation in the app folder of CS3. (I dragged Contact Sheet II from CS3 to CS4 and it works perfectly. Now I need the next step.)
Thanks,
Michele

That function has been transferred to the Output Module in Bridge.
Make absolutely certain you apply the Bridge Output Module update.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/11/bridge_cs4_outp.html
Link to the Bridge forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/bridge/bridge_macintosh?view=discussions&start=0#
Also of interest:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/04/a_few_useful_reminders.html

PDF presentation in Photoshop

Is it possible to create a PDF presentation in Photoshop CS4 using the Snow Leopard OS?
If so how? I can't find it. Adobe moved other apps from Photoshop to Bridge. Did they do that with PDF as well?
Is it necessary to go back to an older version of Photoshop CS or Leopard?
donaldjs250

You may want to read the chapter
Create a PDF contact sheet or presentation with Adobe Output Module
in the Bridge Help (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Bridge/3.0/bridge_versioncue_cs4_help.pdf).

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

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.

Resolution problem with pdf presentation from CS4 in Bridge

I have CS4 and am consistently having problems creating multipage pdf files using Bridge; though they are created using 300 dpi files in Photoshop CS4 the resulting multipage pdfs from Bridge are not print quality. I never had a problem with this before Bridge was required to create pdf presentations. The files used to create the presentation in Bridge are either psd or Photoshop pdf at 300 dpi. I am completely self-taught in Photoshop and my skill level is moderate at best, but I am not finding anything to help me so far in searching google and forums. Does anyone have any info to point me in the right direction? thanks-

Have you applied all the updates for photoshop cs4 including this one:
win:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4228
mac:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4229

Photoshop/Bridge CS4 PDF Presentation Update or Plug-in

Full Parameter PDF Presentation is essential for me.
PDF Presentation (as in Photoshop - Bridge CS2 and CS3) with panels for selection of presentation prameters and saving with various levels of jpeg compression and image quality, presets and output color conversion, etc. . This was not only a very useful feature, but has become a required component of my workflow over the past three years. This to shoot all imaages in RAW, upload files to Bridge, develop a wide range of selected images with Camera RAW and then produce a PDF slide show of 20-25 'proofs' while still in Bridge with a size of 10-15MB that can be emailed to various recipients for review and final selection. Final selections are then fine truned in Photoshop for printing. While some of the improvements in CS4 are useful, CS3 at present is more satisfactory and remains more useful than the CS4 upgrade. Addition of this feature as an update or legacy plug-in (the basic componets exist in CS4) would be more than acceoptable and allow me to complete the upgrade to CS4. Your attention and help will be very much appreciaated!

APOLOGIES!!!
I just found it......
Using the Adobe Output Module script, you can create Adobe PDF contact sheets and presentations in Adobe Bridge. Contact sheets let you easily preview and catalog groups of images by displaying a series of thumbnails on a single page. PDF presentations let you use a variety of images to create a multipage document for slide show presentation. You can set options for image quality in the PDF, specify security settings, and set the document to open automatically in full-screen mode in Adobe Acrobat. You can also add the filename as a text overlay below each image in the PDF.
1. Select the files or the collection or folder that contains the images you want to include in the contact sheet or presentation.
2. Choose Window > Workspace > Output.
If the Output workspace is not listed, select Adobe Output Module in Startup Scripts preferences.
Adobe Bridge displays the Output panel at the right side of the window and the Folders panel at the left. The Content panel with your selected photos appears at the bottom of the window, and the Preview panel appears in the middle.
3. In the Output panel, select PDF.
4. Choose a layout option from the Template menu.
5. With your photos selected in the Content panel, click Refresh Preview to view the contact sheet in the Output Preview panel.
Note: The Output Preview panel displays only one PDF page.
6. Customize the appearance of the contact sheet by specifying options in the Document, Layout, Overlays, and Watermark areas of the Output panel.
7. (Optional) Change the images in the PDF by navigating to them in the Folders or Favorites panel, and then selecting them in the Content panel. You can also use the Preview panel to preview the images and refine your selection. Drag thumbnails in the Content panel to rearrange the order of the images on the page.
8. Click Refresh Preview at any time to update the PDF and see the changes in the Output Preview panel.
9. For presentations, specify the following options in the Playback panel:
Open In Full Screen Mode
Opens the PDF in full-screen mode in Adobe Acrobat.
Advance Every [x] Seconds
Specifies how long each image is displayed before the presentation advances to the next image. The default duration is 5 seconds.
Loop After Last Page
Specifies that the presentation automatically starts over after reaching the end. Deselect this option to stop the presentation after the final image is displayed.
Transition
Specifies the transition when moving from one image to the next. Choose a transition from the Transition menu. Depending on the transition, you can also specify a Direction and a Speed.
10. If youd like to automatically open the PDF in Acrobat after you save it, select View PDF After Save at the bottom of the Output panel. Otherwise, just click Save.
11. In the Save (Windows) or Save As (Mac OS) dialog box, enter a name for the PDF, select a destination for the saved file, and then click Save.

Multipage PDF back for CS4?

Hi guys,
I know that I should be asking this in the Photoshop forum, but you guys are so much nicer and knowledgeable.
I downloaded the optional plugin zip from Adobe, but it does not include PDF presentation. In our workflow, we open a card template (PSD) and populate it with the clients images and text. These are double sided/creased cards, so in the past we would simply choose automate/pdf presentation and choose multipage pdf and be done.
With CS4, we have to save the files to our desktop, then open bridge, select the files, click on output and change the settings to create the pdf.
As nice as the new output module in bridge is, we work in a production environment and this is really slowing us down.
I know that we could just keep using CS3 for these tasks, but I would love to find a solution in CS4.
Any suggestions? thanks

Are you still on an earlier version? From what I have seen, simple contact sheets still can be made in bridge.
The only difference I see is the sheet is saved as pdf, instead of jpg or other raster type.
As a pdf it can be printed from any program that can load a pdf, which is what you would do with a jpg anyway. The benefit though is the pdf is totally editable in illustrator.
BTW, I am using CS5... OH also it will do multipage pdf's
Edit: Playing with it a bit, I did find a major drawback. It does not do a picture package.

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.

Acrobat 9 pro and problems with pdf made by photoshop cs4

Hello,
I have encountered a problem when viewing pdfs exported from photoshop cs4 using acrobat pro 9. If I open single pdf, it's ok, but whenever I open another pdf, all text is jagged. Then if I close all pdfs and try opening the second one, it's ok again. It looks like acrobat is not able to render texts correctly in newly opened pdf when another pdf is already opened.
This happens only with pdfs exported from photoshop (file->save as->pdf). It does not really matter if the first opened pdf is from photoshop or not, all other opened pdfs from photoshop are crapy.
I tried different settings when saving pdf but the results are always the same - jagged type (it does not even look like aliased, it's completely screwed and unreadable) in second pdf. It is funny because text present as smart object from illustrator renders fine all the time. Therefor I think the problem is between photoshop export and acrobat, vectors are rendered with no problems.
I tried opening on different pc (also with acrobat 9 pro) with the same result. Systems are vista on exporting pc, the second pc is running windows7 beta. However on the third pc with windows XP and adobe reader 9 everything works fine.
Any ideas how to make this work?
regards,
embee

Solution found for me. From Adobe Acrobat & Reader 9.1 Release Notes:
Roaming Profiles on Windows and Networked Home Directory on Macintosh
are not supported configurations for 9.0 or 9.1, however we have made
several fixes in 9.1. We are looking at the possibility of supporting
this for the next major release.
As I am working with roaming profiles, my current solution (which is no solution at all) is to wipe current and reinstall Acrobat/Reader 8. Among other things there are supposed console hacks to make the purchased Adobe software run at all in a group work environment. I will end up trying them later.
Some good reads are :
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/300660
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=198512
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/391738?start=150&tstart=0
http://serverfault.com/questions/37805/adobe-reader-wont-launch-when-logged-into-network-u ser-accounts-open-directory

White line in PDF Presentation

I have created a PDF Presentation in CS3 using 120 jpg images. An occasional page has a thin, white line across it, cutting through both text and image. Does anyone know what is causing this? I work on Mac G5 with OSX.

I checked again and am looking at the white lines when at 100%. However, if I boost it up to 122% it disappears. Then when I drop back to 100% it is gone! I am not interested in printing, but am producing disks with the pdf for family enjoyment (I hope). I'll have to see what happens when I burn it on to a disk. Thanks everyone for your comments and help.
Mardi

PDF export multipage document CS4 how ?

hello,
does anyone know how to export a multi-page PDF document in Photoshop CS4.
It works fine as one page with the SAVE AS pdf menu, but then it does n t allow me( or i didn t see it ;)) to save from a folder several files, or many already opened files on the desktop.
It used to be under > File
Automate
PDF presentation
i tried with Bridge a solution suggested on some forum, but so far what i succeed to do was saving each page separately...
I have the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, windows xp64 bits
thanks!
yann

This is something I'm still confused about also. In the Bridge - output- I can see it will make a multipage presentation. I see if you choose full size it will make one 'picture' per page. I am archiving old letters and scan each page and would combine in CS2 as described in earlier posts. What I don't see are the choices in saving as in a pdf. in the Output area. Just high or low quality, what about the press quality etc. Am I not seeing it? Or the compression choices etc. that is usually found in a pdf save. That whole popup screen with choices. Or the choice where you could also adjust order in open files. Or do I have to purchase Adobe Acrobat to get those options now? For a multi-page pdf document. I have no other Adobe software, like Illustrator etc. Thanks for your help, I'm upgrading from CS2. Vista 64.

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 'PDF Presentation' Back in CS4

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