About Justin VanAlstyne Expertise I have a full working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - 7.01. I have experience in creating interactive PDFs, embedding multimedia, web-based forms, creating presentations using PDF, advanced prepress preparation, PDF web optimization, color management, and using PDF as a soft-proofing tool. I do not have a lot of experience using Acrobat`s advanced Javascripting features, though a lot of custom functionality can be built into a PDF this way.
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Past/Present clients Marsh, Inc. (http://www.marsh.com), Impel Corp (http://www.impelcorp.com), Home Properties (http://www.homeproperties.com)
Expert: Justin VanAlstyne Date: 10/20/2004 Subject: Extracting data from a PDF file
Question Justin:
This may be an easy one for you.
I am creating a new website for an account.
They have a flyer describing their products and services, which contain several product graphics, a company logo and narrative. I don't have access to the any of the files which created the flyer.
Is it possible to copy graphics or any other information from the pdf file.
I am using Acrobat 5, and was unsuccessful this morning in that attempt.
Some of the graphics and the logo are neat, and I would like to make the website consistent with the information contained in the sales material.
Hope this is an easy one for you....does Acrobat 6 offer these capabilities.
Thanks
Nick M.
Answer Nick-
Your best bet is either opening the PDF (page by page) in Photoshop (or Illustrator if there are vector graphics you want), and extracting the images that way, or use the "Export All Images..." command under the Advanced menu in Acrobat. I can't remember whether Acrobat 5 has this feature of not, you can check. I can tell you that 6 does.
