andyjones
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Hi there,
I know own all three products and they are sweeeet..
One thing I took as a given though, which has stopped me in my tracks is the inability to package a document.
Quite often, we designing brochures/ads etc one 'borrows' assets from other documents, creates things on desktop, places images form an external drive etc etc - so when the job is finished, I would always collect or package the final artwork and archive it - so that in the future I can be confident that all the assets for that project are all in one place.
This is crucial to keeping files/fonts etc organised, and manageable - especially when working with other people who may not have access to all the same drives/fonts etc.
Will this be coming in an update soon?
It's kind of the last crucial piece to a lot of designers' workflow
Thanks in advance!
Andy
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2 minutes ago, John Rostron said:
Thanks for that. I do pose the question because it is relevant to the terms of reference of these forum. There have been several postings that appear to be indirectly asking how to circumvent copyright restrictions.
I'm only sorry that I cannot actually offer any useful advice on your original question.
John
Ah I see - no problem.
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1 hour ago, John Rostron said:
None of these responses seem to have addressed the question: do you have permission from the copyright owner to use these images?
John
Probably because it doesn’t have anything to do with the question. But in answer to your question - Yes I have permission. These are files that clients supply of their brochure etc - but they can’t find the original files.
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Just now, carl123 said:
Have you looked at the Export Persona
You can open the PDF, switch to the Export Persona, select all the image layers, create slices then export them all at once to a folder
Hmm - I'll have a go at that - thanks!
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Just now, haakoo said:
Questioning a suggestion doesn't mean people are hostile just questioning why a feature should be implemented.
Your post about the assets maybe validin some cases but it may not be ttrue in all publications.
If this isn't the case you still would need to obtain the assets by other means.
Totally agree - just feel like people are shooting me down without consideration that's all. -
1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
@andyjones: You can open your PDF file in Publisher (or Designer, or Photo) and work with the layers. For example:
- Open in Photo
- Click on an image to select it (if necessary, do this in the Layers panel)
- Ctrl+C to copy it
- Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N to use it as the source for a new document.
- Repeat steps 2-4 as needed.
Yep thanks for this - I can do it this way, but when there are 100s of images to extract, it can take quite a while, whereas i photoshop it takes seconds.
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Just now, MickRose said:
If you have a CS version of Acrobat I'd just be thankful & continue to use what I think is great software. I think it's unlikely that any Serif programs will want to have Acrobat functionality in the foreseeable future.
I agree it's great software.
I feel a little confused by some of the responses on this thread to be honest (Not so much yours, but others were pretty hostile).
This section of the forum is for product suggestions.
I had a suggestion which I thought was valid - and so too did @affinitybyserif on Twitter - and they actually suggested I post this here because it wasn't currently a feature of Affinity Photo.
But for some reason, post replies just seems very defensive about anything new - but surely this is a forum to share and suggest ideas?
Just tying to help make a great bit of software better - that can only happen by constructive discussion.
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Just now, haakoo said:
By this I mean that if you receive a pdf made by somebody else they likely would have trimmed down excess data.
Images as is and maybe rasterized at a dpi/size needed for its purpose.
I see what you want,an option to import a (self created) pdf from another program and have its assets separated and opened.
But this could also mean you already have these assets,don't you thinkThanks.
But in reality, a lot of publishers DON'T trim down their assets before publishing to PDF. And this is for items supplied by external originators, not myself.
If I already had the assets in the first place, I probably wouldn't have posted this thread!
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Just now, MickRose said:
Do you have Acrobat Professional? If so you can extract all the images from the PDF.
Good point - but I'm TRYING to escape from the clutches of Acrobat... I'm not sure I will ever be able to completely free though!
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3 minutes ago, haakoo said:
I said the original creator.
I have no idea what you mean!
I can't see how else I can explain what I am trying to do, which i can't currently in Affiinity Photo.
I'm trying to explain multiple images, from a PDF, without having to open up the whole pages and delete all the other elements.
There could be a100 images - which would take forever if I have to import the entire PDF, but if I could just import the images into separate docs, it would be perfect.
Does that make sense?
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26 minutes ago, MickRose said:
Hi andyjones - Affinity Photo can open a PDF with layers so I don't see the problem.
Ah OK - I didn't realise you could import with layers! This is great news - but, if I need to get 20 images form a product catalogue for example, it's going to take ages to manually extract the images and remove all the other graphics etc. In Photoshop, there is the option to select all the images you want prior to importing, and they all open up as separate photoshop files, at their original crop and resolution. This is the functionality I was asking about.
Apologies if I didn't explain myself better.
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18 minutes ago, haakoo said:
And besides,if the original creator cropped and/or compressed/rasterized before exporting to pdf,there is no gain also
Not true. If the image inserted into indesign (for example) was actual scaled down to 50% and cropped in the PDF, the original sized image would still be available, so I can get a higher resolution original form the PDF in Photoshop
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HI there,
One feature Photoshop has which I really miss in Affinity Photo is the ability to extract the images from a PDF.
Often clients supply a PDF, which contains images that you might want to use without the text over the top, or cropped differently.
If you could import the original image, it will be more usable in other projects.
Thanks
Andy
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1 minute ago, TonyB said:
We will be able to import InDesign IDML files but not .indd files. The feature is being written but we don't have a timescale yet.
Awesome thanks!
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52 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums
I have moved your suggestions to this Publisher Suggestions forum, as they seem most relevant to Affinity Publisher (not Designer). If you read this forum you will see that your requests are already very popular.
Ah Sorry - I think in my head 'designer' is 'indesign'! thanks!
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I am SOO ready to bin Adobe - I hate their business model, and their ridiculous pricing.
But, I have 10+ years worth of archived indesign files.
I assume at some point in the future someone will either create a plugin, or you will natively be able to import indd docs?
I would switch in a heartbeat if this was possible, but at the moment, i have to keep indesign purely because i cannot re-create everything on my work archive.
Loving your work.
Andy
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Loving it so far - are there any plans to add in document or Master page column guides?
I know one can use normal guides, but it requires a lot of maths to work out a 12 column grid for example.
As an old-school print designer, I rely heavily on a column grid as a basis of every single design, so it's quite a big deal.
Thanks!
Andy
Extract images from PDF
in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
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Ooh looks good - thanks!