Drawing pictures from PDF

hi, i'm going to do a second issue of one book, the 1st issue PDF of which i have. the source pictures used in the first issue are hard to get, but the PDF is exported in a press quality (pictures are 300dpi). my question is if i can use "Save image as" tool of Acrobat Pro to create copies of the pictures from the PDF and use them for the second issue (for press quality) without loosing their quality considerably. it saves them in 300dpi, so i think the quality is preserved, isn't it?
thank

well, i'm ashamed to confess that i'm the creator of the originnal file, but i didn't keep the copies of the pictures... not purposely, i had to reinstall my computer completely... and i didn't keep them. but i've already drawn und used the pictures again - seem quite good, no problem. i use Acrobat 9 Pro

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