Rasterizing PDFs?

I have a large PDF file with over 30 pages, each page is composed mainly of vector images. I need to drastically reduce the file size by rasterizing everything. How do I do this in Acrobat? I've already tried "flattener preview", then set rasterize/vector ratio to 100 which I assume means 100% rasterized, lowered dpi to just 72, then hit apply/saved file, but absolutely nothing happened, the file is exact same size as before, down to a kilobyte. There must be a better way than exporting every single page as a jpg, then manually compiling each page into a pdf? Acrobat is not very smart in compiling multiple images into a page, as it doesn't even have a "reorder pages" function... when I try to select all the images and compile into a pdf, it will add all the pages in reverse order (page 1 becomes last page) for some reason...

It is hard for me to believe that rasterizing vector graphics will give you something smaller. Except for extremely complex vector graphics, the vector form is always smaller than a bitmap.
However, you asked. The easiest way is to save the PDF as a TIFF (or other). Then collect all the TIFFs together in a new PDF. That will give you a PDF of bitmap graphics. You can control the resolution on the save (check the options or settings on the save screen). There is a change there is a preflight stript to do this conversion, I did not see one in AA9.
It sounds like my last suggestion is similar to what you have tried. The reverse order is common in Acrobat, but is easily corrected by simply reversing the order in the explorer window. You can also try the combine to create PDF and again probably reverse the order in the explorer window.

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Just a hunch. Are you getting these from Mail? I used Mail to send some PDFs a while ago and I discovered that if you use the feature at the bottom that limits image sizes, it will actually rasterize your PDF attachments in order to shrink file sizes or something.
Let me know if this means anything to you.

Lines in rasterized pdf (PS CS6)

After opening pdf in photoshop CS6 (win 7 64 bit) there are thin (1 px) horizontal and vertical lines.
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Same pdf rasterized in photoshop CS4 does not produce this lines.
Is this a bug?

We have tried with some success to use the Flattener Transparency preset in Indesign.
Select Edit and go to Flattener Transparency Presets. Create New and use the settings I have used:
I have called it PSD Transparency 25%, but you can call it what you want.
Now when you export the PDF, go to the Advanced dialog and in the Transparency setting, select your PSD Transparency 25% preset that you created.
The Adobe PDF Preset will say modified afterwards. If you click the Save Preset button in the bottom left, you can save this PDF Preset. Now instead of selecting the PDF/X-1a:2001 preset when you export the PDF, select your newly created one instead and it should remove the stitching artifacts.
If you find you still have some stitching problem, then in the Transparency Flattener Presets, move the slider down towards the left (rasters) side a bit more to see if that solves the problem. You can overwrite or rename the Transparency Flattener Preset.
Hope this helps some of you.
Regards
Simon

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I have a bunch of scanned-in PDF documents. I want to cut parts out from one scanned-in document and paste it into another scanned-in document. They aren't individual pictures, rather just pieces of the document. I can't figure out how to accomplish this. Everything I read is documenting a PDF that has Text, Pictures, etc, where my document is just one rasterized picture that I want to cut up.
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What you're doing wrong is you're trying to work with PDF files like
they're images. For this kind of work you should use an image editing
application, like Photoshop. Convert the PDF files to images (ore re-scan
the pages, this time to an image format like TIFF), and then do it there.
When done you can create a PDF file from that image.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:16 AM, robertj33460180 <[email protected]>

Problem rasterizing PDFs

I put multiple pdfs onto the photoshop CS5 application icon to rasterize them, i get the first window to ask me the dimensions, resolution etc, them the first pdf opens and then photoshop stops. Until i type «ESC» or OPEN NEW DOCUMENT and then CANCEL, and only then photoshop pops me the window for the next pdf in line to be rasterized.
This is a problem that comes and goes, i wonder if its a preference somewhere or what. Usually after the first pdf is open, the next window pops and so on, until all myy pdfs are open in photoshop.
I have talked to other people and seems that this problem also appears sometimes in CS4

Hi, Tommynator. This is the forum for Photoshop Elements. Since your question is about full Photoshop, you will get better answers in the appropriate PS forum for your platform:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop
Good luck!

Glitches when Rasterizing PDF Files?

Hi, I'm having issues with Photoshop 5 when rasterising pdf files on a new iMac running OSX 10.6.6. Small glitches, like lines appear in certain areas (see images below) When I rasterised the same file on another older iMac running OS 10.5.8 and Photoshop 4 it rendered correctly. Any ideas what may be causing this and any solutions/work arounds?
With glitchwithout glitch

Uhhhh,
specially in a printing environment you should avoild rasterizing any PDF. This is the worst way you can go:
Are you aware about text and vectors which are rasterized become blurry?
Are you aware that 1c-black becomes 4c-black
Are you aware that a pdf can contain different color spaces and profiles?
All this information causes in bad printing quality. Please, don't use PS to rasterize PDFs. If I would realize that my printer is doing it, I would stop any cooperation with him and I would also cancel any open orders and consider to request money back for all other orders. (I would realize it with the first delivery I get it.)

Rasterizing PDF to memory in Acrobat

I'm currently investigating how to rasterize PDF pages as image data to memory from an Acrobat Plugin.
I found the PDPageDrawContentsToWindow() function and got that to work on Mac. But I have two problems with this approach:
1. I don't know what color space, the result image data is in. How can I get or control the destination ICC profile used by Acrobat?
2. There seems to be no way to specify CMYK output. Is this possible at all?
Any help much appreciated.

PDPageDrawContentsToWindow always draws into an RGB-based window (since it's assumed to be going to the screen). The profiles used are the ones selected by the user in their color management preferences.
If you need that type of control over rendering, you should be using the PDPageDrawContentsToMemory (I think it is) instead which gives you full control over colorspace, etc.

Applescript vs PDF more pages vs Tiff

Does anyone know a script that can makes tiff images from a multipage PDF.
I don't know how to automate this procces in photoshop, Because the PDF files have more or less pages and I need a tiff image from every page.
Does anyone know this. So a folder with PDF files and make tiff images from every page of every PDF. Keeping the file name and add the page number at the end?
PDF : 2008-merging.pdf / 2008-merging.pdf-p1.tiff / 2008-merging.pdf-p2.tiff / ...
If you know this , it would be great if you want to share it.
Thank in advance.

Here is a old script that should get you going. I did this some time back when on Panther there are better methods for finding the number of pages in PDF in Tiger I just have not had the time to bring this up to date.
set TodaysDate to do shell script "date \"+%d-%m-%y\""
-- Create new folder to save to
tell application "Finder"
set RasterImages to make new folder at desktop with properties ¬
{name:"Rasterized PDF's " & TodaysDate}
end tell
-- Check for application processes else launch
tell application "System Events"
if not (exists process "Acrobat") then
launch application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
end if
if not (exists process "Adobe Photoshop CS2") then
launch application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
end if
end tell
-- Set Photoshop settings
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
set display dialogs to never
set UserPrefs to properties of settings
set ruler units of settings to pixel units
-- set background color to {class:CMYK color, cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:0, black:0}
-- set foreground color to {class:CMYK color, cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:0, black:100}
end tell
-- Get list of PDF's
set Q1 to "Do you want to include all the subfolders" & return & "within your folder selection?"
set theDialog to display dialog Q1 buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 1 with icon note
if button returned of theDialog is "Yes" then
set inputFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where is the top level folder of PFD's?" without invisibles
tell application "Finder"
set filesList to (files of entire contents of inputFolder whose name extension is "pdf")
end tell
else
tell application "Finder"
set inputFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where is the folder of PFD's?" without invisibles
set filesList to (files of inputFolder whose name extension is "pdf")
end tell
end if
set countA to count of filesList
if countA = 0 then
display dialog "This folder contains no PDF files to rasterize!" giving up after 2
end if
-- Loop through the files in list
repeat with aFile in filesList
tell application "Finder"
set theFile to aFile as alias
end tell
-- Open in Acrobat to count the pages
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
-- activate
open theFile with invisible
tell document 1
set PageCount to count of pages
end tell
close document 1 saving no
end tell
-- Loop Photoshop through the page count
repeat with i from 1 to PageCount
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
activate
open theFile as PDF with options ¬
{class:PDF open options, bits per channel:eight, constrain proportions:true, crop page:trim box, mode:CMYK, page:i, resolution:300, suppress warnings:true, use antialias:true, use page number:true}
set docRef to the current document
tell docRef
flatten
-- New file naming options
set docName to name of docRef
set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set docName to text items of docName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_"
set docName to docName as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set docName to text item 1 of docName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
if PageCount = 1 then
set newFileName to (RasterImages as string) & docName & ".tif"
else
set fileNum to ""
repeat until (length of (fileNum as text)) = (length of (PageCount as text))
if fileNum = "" then
set fileNum to i
else
set fileNum to "0" & fileNum
end if
end repeat
set newFileName to (RasterImages as string) & docName & "_" & fileNum & ".tif"
end if
end tell
save docRef in file newFileName as TIFF with options {byte order:Mac OS, embed color profile:true, image compression:LZW, save alpha channels:false, save layers:false}
close current document without saving
end tell
end repeat
end repeat
-- Set ruler units back to user prefs
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
set ruler units of settings to ruler units of UserPrefs
end tell

Flex SDK pdf class and ColdFusion 9

Regarding the Pdf class (which is wrapper for ColdFusion 9's cfpdf).
I am trying to determine if it is worth upgrading to Flash Builder 4, just
to use the Pdf class.
How well does the Pdf class work?
When generating thumbnails, does the Pdf class rasterized pdf page?
Does Pdf class require an image object to display the Thumbnail page?
Any opinions?

This blog post is pretty close to what I want:
http://justinjmoses.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/flex-dynamic-bindable-value-objects/
So there are the dynamic value objects I was looking for. But the blog-poster is using LINQ and .Net 3.5. I'm using ColdFusion9.
So, how do I get ColdFusion9 to deal with that? How do you get CF9 to recognize the fact that you've changed the VO, and deal with it appropriately?
Thanks,
L.

Bridge PDFs show Illustrator files "fuzzy"

When I use Bridge to manage Illustrator Files I sometimes want to output a selection of those drawings as a composite PDF via the "Output" feature.
When I do this, the PDFs are always soft, or stair-steppy, and don't reflect the smooth vector nature of the Illustrator file.
I've selected the highest quality settings for the PDF production in the Bridge menu.
Is correcting this a matter of making changes in Illustrator or in Bridge? Or is it not fixable?
I'm using Bridge in CS5 and Illustrator CS5 (Mac OS 10.6).

Thanks so much for your help, I didn't know any of those things. Very interesting.
In regards to Photoshop rasterizing PDFs, what exactly are the ramifications of that? A PDF-X saved from Photoshop is still fine to send to the print press, right?
So far, all the print work I do I design in the colour space specified by my printer, then save as a PDF-X1a (which is also what they specify), by doing 'Save As' in Illlustrator. I also name the file with the colour space, and my printer has not had any problems with this.
The reason I'm asking about colour management, is that I may start expanding into the area of designing adverts for newspapers and magazines, and this involves different colour spaces. And newspapers etc. around here won't be as fussy about colour management as my print-press, which is a very good print company. So it would be better if I knew they were getting PDFs from me with embedded colour profiles.
I think the situation is that when I save things with embedded profiles, that it does in fact work, despite what Bridge, Illustrator and InDesign say. I have .ai files that show up in Bridge as untagged, but when opened in Illustrator, do indeed have an embedded colour profile.
It's very confusing to know what's going on.
A rather non-technical workaround, which alot of people seem to use, is just designing the file in the correct colour space, saving the file in that colour space, naming the file with that colour space, and then when it gets to the printer/magazine/newspaper etc. hoping that (A) there is colour profile data in the file that people can see at the destination or (B) the people at the destination know from the file name that you designed it in the correct space, and so they just Assign Profile at their end, and all is well.
I mean, what's the alternative, I can't suddenly stop using Illustrator and InDesign, and doing ALL my work in Photoshop, just because of what Bridge says!

Files with embedded profiles shown as untagged in Bridge.Bridge only right about files saved from PS

Photoshop works perfectly when saving files as .psds etc. or PDF-Standards (PDF-X etc.), embedding the profiles correctly. However, InDesign and Illustrator do not embed any colour profiles in .pdfs, in their native formats (.indd and .ai) or any other format apart from .jpg.
Why is Photoshop working perfectly, yet AI and INDD are not? Everything was installed at the same time, and the colour management settings are all synchronised in bridge.
All I want to be able to do is save as one of the default PDF-X settings (via File > Save As in Illustrator), but as I said, saving as the same PDF-X standard across all 3 programs only embeds the profile if saved from Photoshop. I don’t have the slightest clue why Photshop is the only one that works.
Although, according to this post, which seems very similar to my question, it might be Adobe Brdige CS5 that is wrong: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3565578
Because I have files that Bridge shows as untagged, which upon opening do in fact have an embedded colour profile. Ugh, this stuff is confusing!

Thanks so much for your help, I didn't know any of those things. Very interesting.
In regards to Photoshop rasterizing PDFs, what exactly are the ramifications of that? A PDF-X saved from Photoshop is still fine to send to the print press, right?
So far, all the print work I do I design in the colour space specified by my printer, then save as a PDF-X1a (which is also what they specify), by doing 'Save As' in Illlustrator. I also name the file with the colour space, and my printer has not had any problems with this.
The reason I'm asking about colour management, is that I may start expanding into the area of designing adverts for newspapers and magazines, and this involves different colour spaces. And newspapers etc. around here won't be as fussy about colour management as my print-press, which is a very good print company. So it would be better if I knew they were getting PDFs from me with embedded colour profiles.
I think the situation is that when I save things with embedded profiles, that it does in fact work, despite what Bridge, Illustrator and InDesign say. I have .ai files that show up in Bridge as untagged, but when opened in Illustrator, do indeed have an embedded colour profile.
It's very confusing to know what's going on.
A rather non-technical workaround, which alot of people seem to use, is just designing the file in the correct colour space, saving the file in that colour space, naming the file with that colour space, and then when it gets to the printer/magazine/newspaper etc. hoping that (A) there is colour profile data in the file that people can see at the destination or (B) the people at the destination know from the file name that you designed it in the correct space, and so they just Assign Profile at their end, and all is well.
I mean, what's the alternative, I can't suddenly stop using Illustrator and InDesign, and doing ALL my work in Photoshop, just because of what Bridge says!

Is there a way to trigger batch process via Applescript or Javascript?

Based on what I've found so far on the internet, the answer is no. The Applescripts I've found so far that attempt to run a batch process don't work for me in either Acrobat Pro 8 or Pro 9.
I've been using Applescript to automate a process that starts in InDesign (create PDFs), then goes to Acrobat to set open options (I've got a batch process for that but can't find a way to trigger it). If I can get that to work, I'll attempt to automate the task of using a Photoshop droplet to create JPEGs of a specific size from these PDFs.
I've settled on InDesign CS3 for creating single-page PDFs from a multiple-page document, partly because I could not find a scriptable way to do this in Acrobat. I know just enough about Applescript to be dangerous. I know much less about Javascript.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Stauffer

Kevin some thing like this for Photoshop should aid you
set Todays_Date to do shell script "date \"+%d-%m-%y\""
-- Create new folder to save to
tell application "Finder"
set Raster_Images to make new folder at desktop with properties ¬
{name:"Rasterized PDF's " & Todays_Date}
end tell
-- Set Photoshop settings
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
activate
set display dialogs to never
set User_Rulers to ruler units of settings
set ruler units of settings to pixel units
-- set background color to {class:CMYK color, cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:0, black:0}
-- set foreground color to {class:CMYK color, cyan:0, magenta:0, yellow:0, black:100}
end tell
-- Get list of PDF's
set The_Question to "Do you want to include all the subfolders" & return & "within your folder selection?"
set The_Dialog to display dialog The_Question buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 1 with icon note
if button returned of The_Dialog is "Yes" then
set Input_Folder to choose folder with prompt "Where is the top level folder of PFD's?" without invisibles
tell application "Finder"
set File_List to (files of entire contents of Input_Folder whose name extension is "pdf")
end tell
else
tell application "Finder"
set Input_Folder to choose folder with prompt "Where is the folder of PFD's?" without invisibles
set File_List to (files of Input_Folder whose name extension is "pdf")
end tell
end if
set File_Count to count of File_List
if File_Count = 0 then
display dialog "This folder contains no PDF files to rasterize!" giving up after 2
end if
-- Loop through the files in list
repeat with This_File in File_List
tell application "Finder"
set The_File to This_File as alias
end tell
-- Tiger (OSX.4) shell call to count the pages
set Page_Count to my PDF_Pages(POSIX path of The_File)
if the result is not false then
-- Loop Photoshop through the page count
repeat with i from 1 to Page_Count
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
activate
open The_File as PDF with options ¬
{class:PDF open options, bits per channel:eight, constrain proportions:true, crop page:trim box, mode:CMYK, page:i, resolution:300, suppress warnings:true, use antialias:true, use page number:true}
set Doc_Ref to the current document
tell Doc_Ref
flatten
-- Enter your name strings into two enties below
-- Case sensitive stings
-- do action "My Action" from "My Action Set"
-- New file naming options
set Doc_Name to name
set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set Doc_Name to text items of Doc_Name
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_"
set Doc_Name to Doc_Name as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
set Doc_Name to text item 1 of Doc_Name
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
if Page_Count = 1 then
set New_File_Name to (Raster_Images as string) & Doc_Name & ".tif"
else
set File_Number to ""
repeat until (length of (File_Number as text)) = (length of (Page_Count as text))
if File_Number = "" then
set File_Number to i
else
set File_Number to "0" & File_Number
end if
end repeat
set New_File_Name to (Raster_Images as string) & Doc_Name & "_" & File_Number & ".tif"
end if
end tell
save Doc_Ref in file New_File_Name as TIFF with options {byte order:Mac OS, embed color profile:false, image compression:LZW, save alpha channels:false, save layers:false}
close current document without saving
end tell
end repeat
end if
end repeat
-- Set ruler units back to user prefs
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
set ruler units of settings to User_Rulers
end tell
beep 3
-- OSX Tiger shell handler
on PDF_Pages(This_PDF)
try
do shell script "/usr/bin/mdls -name kMDItemNumberOfPages" & space & quoted form of This_PDF & " | /usr/bin/grep -o '[0-9]\\+$'"
on error Error_Message number Error_Number
if Error_Number is 1 then
display alert "Page Count Unavailable" message "The page count for " & This_PDF & " is unavailable." giving up after 3
return false
else
display alert "Error " & Error_Number message Error_Message giving up after 3
return false
end if
end try
end PDF_Pages
and something like this to perform JavaScript from within AppleScript for Acrobat
You would be better talking to the JavaScript Experts on how to use addScript() to get your doc level scripts in.
property Default_Path : (path to desktop folder as Unicode text) as alias
property JavaScript : "var re = /.*\\/|\\.pdf$/ig; var filename = this.path.replace(re,''); try { for (var i = 0; i < this.numPages; i++) this.extractPages( { nStart: i, cPath: filename+'_' + (i+1) +'.pdf' }); } catch (e) { console.println('Aborted: '+e) }" as text
set The_PDF to choose file default location Default_Path ¬
with prompt "Where is the multi-page PDF?" without invisibles
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
activate
open The_PDF
tell active doc
do script JavaScript
close saving yes
end tell
end tell

Thin lines on PDFx1a have printed on final job!!!

We recently produced a final print PDF for the front cover of magazine and all was well. No Lines as normal.
However, when this same PDF of cover was placed back into Indesign as part of a promotional poster, the final PDF appeared have some thin lines in 3 places. They were visible when PDF was viewed at 800% and above, and we initially thought that they were part of the 'Atomic Regions' set out by the flattening process. Anyway, these lines have printed and now we are wondering how to avoid this in future
As I say it only appears to happen when placing the Cover version of PDF back into Indesign file and a new PDF is created.
Does anyone know how to get round this without rasterizing PDF and changing to a bitmapped image. After all we want to keep all vector items as original cover, as poster is quite large.
I look forward to a reply
Many thanks,
Scratchy Head Man

Take it to an Apple Store or other service provider for testing.

File opens slowly, saves slowly

With the scenarios set up below, it seems that these files are taking unusually long to open and save (up to 20 minutes on scenario #1, up to 7 minutes on scenario #2). Is this typical for the filetype described? Any help would be appreciated - this is causing workdays until midnight!!! =(
SCENARIO #1
[Running 32 bit Windows XP on a 2.3GHz ThinkCentre M55p, 2GB RAM, Photoshop CS1. Have files ranging in size from 50MB to 325MB. Application installed on C: drive, primary scratch disk is on partitioned D: drive with 3.96GB free space, secondary scratch disk is on C: drive with 53.98GB free space. Largest file has about 12 layers, including 3 layers with rasterized PDFs and about 9 layers that have blocks of filled color with craquelure & inner shadow added.]
SCENARIO #2
[Running 32 bit Windows XP on a 2.3GHz ThinkPad T61p, 2GB RAM, Photoshop CS1. Have files ranging in size from 50MB to 325MB. Application installed on C: drive, primary scratch disk is on partitioned D: drive with 36.4GB free space, secondary scratch disk is on C: drive with 29.7GB free space. Largest file has about 12 layers, including 3 layers with rasterized PDFs and about 9 layers that have blocks of filled color with craquelure & inner shadow added.

Seattle User,
One big bottleneck is your I/O. Nowadays, there are very few reasons to partition any physical HDD. If you feel the need to do so, make sure that nothing related to PS is on that second partition - nothing. I'd also make sure that your Windows Page File is not on it either - nothing but maybe documents, or other non-image assets.
What happens with a partitioned drive that is part of the PS setup is that you are asking the heads to be in many places at the same time. That cannot happen, so something has to give. That is the access time. Always use physical disks. Depending on your controller, you might even want to split the I/O load over a second PCIe controller card. HDDs are so very cheap now, there is no reason to not fill one's case with them and use them to do everything to keep all files off your C:\ (and, in your case D:\ drives).
It appears that at least one of these machines is a laptop, maybe both. You will get better results without the partitions. If the case can hold more physical HDDs, then I'd add 'em. My laptop has 3x 200GB 7200RPM drives, and I can do SD video in real time on it.
If the case will not support more HDDs, then think about external HDDs. Go for eSATA via an ExpressCard, or almost as good, IEEE-1394b (FW-800). Some years back, I did some timing tests on a Toshiba with only 2x 80GB 5400RPM HDDs, using various externals. There was a measurable difference having the PS Scratch Disk on a 250GB Maxtor between the USB and the FW-400, but not much in real world times. I picked up almost a minute with the test file and the Actions, designed to use the Scratch Disk (external) with FW-400. Other than a faster processor (pure GHz, as I do not see the Core config of your two CPUs), the Toshiba would Open and Save 200+GB image files in about a minute and a half. The new laptop does it in seconds, without any "external" Scratch Disks. About as fast as my workstation does.
Remember, if you do change your Scratch Disk location, you'll need to re-start PS for these changes to take effect - at least you do with CS2. Maybe CS3 is dynamic, in that regard.
Hunt

Import pdf as rastered image into a c++ application

Hi Everyone,
I am developing a commercial application which processes rastered images. Additionally to bitmap formats like BMP and TIFF the application has to be able to load and process PDF-files. The PDFs only contain one page.
To make it harder, some of the PDF-files don't even "look right" when they are opened with Adobe Reader or Acrobat. They will print correct but they will only be displayed correct if "Use Overprint Preview" is set to "Automatic" or "Always". For my application I also need to disable "Smooth Text for LCD" and "Enhance thin lines".
Now, I am trying to get rastered information into my applications memory.
I cannot use CAcroPDPage::CopyToClipboard as it will not work on 64 bit systems. Also I would prefer not to mess around with the clipboard.
With CAcroPDPage::DrawEx I have to render the PDF into my window. When I want to load a PDF at a high resolution, I have to scroll over the PDF and read the pixels from the screen which looks ridiculous. In fact, I don't want to show the unprocessed pdf at all. Also I could not find a way to enable "Use Overprint Preview" for DrawEx.
The third possibility would be to use Acrobat's Export as: PNG function from my application. Although I would prefer to be able to render only relevant parts of the PDF, It should be ok to save the PDF once, with a high resolution of 600 dpi or more. But when I tried this from Acrobat, antialiasing and "Use Overprint Preview" were disabled. I could use this if it were possible to save with antialiasing and "Use Overprint Preview" enabled.
So my big question is: Is there a way to render a PDF to my application's memory?
It would be possible to require every user of our software to buy Acrobat if necessary.
Thanks in advance,
Michael

You want to license the Adobe PDFLibrary, which will give you full control over the rendering process.

Rasterizing PDFs?

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