Create a PDF presentation from Photoshop

Submitted by Ivan on Tue, 2006-07-25 19:03

PDF presentations are becoming more and more popular. I guess it's nicer to send one complete PDF file to client that is put in order rather than sending a bunch of individual jpegs.

If you have your jpegs ready there is a very quick and easy way to put them into a PDF file using Photoshop. Open all the files. Select File/ Automate/ PDF Presentation. You will have an option to include all open files on the very top of the window, switch it on.

Now, drag around the files names in the window to put the images in order.

You can select from the options to have a simple multi page document or a slideshow with transition and timing. The latter is great for porfolios, but will only display properly if your client is using Acrobat Reader. Otherwise it will be a simple multi-page document.

In the next dialog window you will have many options. One useful feature is to give a password to protect the document. Unfortunately this feature makes the document lose its thumbs in Preview.

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Another way...

Submitted by natobasso (3922 points) on Wed, 2006-07-26 21:16.

Very cool post, I didn't know you could make a multiple page pdf in photoshop. Thanks! Also there's a free app called Combine PDFs that does this as well...find it on versiontracker.com.

Keep up this great site!

Nathaniel
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Creating PDFs

Submitted by lwilliamsworks (12 points) on Tue, 2009-04-28 15:57.

Some of us multimedia "professionals" are a bit older . . . perhaps less intuitive . . . (in my organization, I'm the dummy that test drives all the material to make sure the bar is low enough) so thank you for these tidbits!

Wow, what an excellent

Submitted by jonathanmortimer (45 points) on Fri, 2006-07-28 09:54.

Wow, what an excellent little feature! I'm finding out there's loads of stuff in Photoshop I've never seen before, thanks Ivan.

which version?

Submitted by IIIIIIIII (1 points) on Sat, 2006-07-29 19:44.

i can't find no "PDF Presentation" under automate in PS7, is this a PS8 option?

I can confirm that it's in

Submitted by jonathanmortimer (45 points) on Sat, 2006-07-29 20:03.

I can confirm that it's in Photoshop CS (AKA Photoshop 8), can't speak for Photoshop 7.

I used CS2.

Submitted by Ivan on Tue, 2006-08-01 07:08.

I used CS2.

Ditto, using CS4

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2009-05-03 17:30.

Easiest Way....

Submitted by liske (111 points) on Wed, 2006-08-16 22:33.

I find the easiest workflow to follow like this: I have a batch of Jpeg concepts on my desktop or in a folder- I then drag them to Acrobat in my Dock or APP icon and it asks "do you want to combine into one PDF?" just prior to opening.

One drag, one click. Then in document properties I set the default view to 100% so people aren't seeing something overenlarged or too small- just how you would see it on the web. I know it would require Acrobat but I assume most have it.

You Saved the Day!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-03-27 18:02.

Thanks for this! I was about to download a new program until I found this helpful post!

Thanks,
Christy

the best

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-04-06 18:45.

thank you very much for this post

So helpful!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-04-13 02:23.

Thank you sooooooo much.

amazing!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2009-04-18 15:48.

This was brilliant help!!! very simple to understand with step by step. Thanku very much!! You made it so easy!

Acrobat 9 pdf portfolio background images

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-04-20 09:44.

I am trying to place an image in a pdf portfolio as a background. My image is pixaled and blurry. Not good to give to my client. Acrobat portfolio seems to only read jpegs, gifs and png's for the backgrounds. My original file was created in Illustrator, which I then placed in photoshop as a vector smart object. I have tried various resolutions from 72 - 300 dpi. Its not working.
Can anyone help?
Jas

Just create a huge image.

Submitted by Ivan on Mon, 2009-04-20 21:09.

Just create a huge image. 2000x2000px or larger. Then it will be ok.

pdf portfolio

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-05-01 17:22.

Please tell me how you do it on the cs4 as the photoshop has no pdf portfolio /presentation in automate?? anyone have a clue ?? I am a student THX

PDF Portfolio Problem

Submitted by Naomi2464 (2 points) on Fri, 2009-06-05 05:17.

Hi,

I've created a PDF portfolio from InDesign, originally I had all the images in low res and some high res jpgs. When I open the complete PDF portfolio I notice that the type comes up all rasterized and the pics looks in very poor quality. So then I created my individual design pieces to pdfs and imported them to the doc layout. Now they look smashing BUT the final PDF file, even if I include only 3 samples of work is now a very big file, even when compressed.

Help! not sure what I'm doing today. I haven't tried the idea with Photoshop. This shouldn't be so hard to do, really. What would be the best way to create this portfolio? Most companies want you to send no larger than 3/5MB files. I want to include more than just 3 pieces.

Thanks.

I forgot to mention. Your

Submitted by Naomi2464 (2 points) on Fri, 2009-06-05 05:46.

I forgot to mention. Your idea of using Photoshop is a great idea however it doesn't work when you want to add text to your images. I need to explain my portfolio pieces. Unfortunately i don't have Adobe Acrobat. :(