Expert: Candice Anderson - 4/24/2007

Question
Hi!

I am having a couple of problems with something I'm trying to do. I have a folder full of hi-res PDFs. They are pages to a publication. I need to convert all of these to lower-res, RGB jpgs, and save them in the same folder as the pdfs.

I have tried automating the whole process, open the PDF as a 200 DPI, RGB image, change the image size, flatten it, and Save For Web into the same folder. However, I have heard that there is a flaw in CS2 and for some reason the name of the first image file is retained in all the subsequent files opened with the batch. Therefore, it wants to overwrite the first file after it's done processing each image. Does this make sense?

So, my temporary solution has been to manually open each PDF as a 200 DPI, RGB graphic and then run the action to change the image size and flatten it. Then, manually Save For Web as a jpg (with specific settings). Is there a way to make the action "know" to save the jpgs in the same folder as the pdfs or is that where doing a batch comes in?

None of that works though because there is some problem in CS2 when it opens several pdfs as part of a batch.

Hopefully this isn't too confusing...please let me know if you need clarification on anything :)

Thanks!
Jamie

Answer
hey there,

The only thing that I can think of it to batch into a seperate folder, then just move those files into the folder you really want them to go into when your done. When you save to the same folder, it cs2 gets confused. It wants to replace the file.