Opening PDF and converting to pixels

[Markus Dierolf]

Hey guys,

just playing around with the Photo Beta, and run into a problem/question :)

 

I have a PDF file with photos, curves and fonts. It will be opened in Photo and splittet into different layers for text, photos, ... Is there an option to open a PDF and convert it directly to a flat color-bitmap? In Photoshop I have the option to convert a file directly to CMYK-, RGB-bitmap in the opening dialogue.

 

And if I export the page to JPG and give it a size like 1000 x 500 px, and do the same export in Photoshop the size is always different. In Photoshop i see the size is 1000 x 500 px with 72 ppi (and I can modify this value), and in Photo I always get 1000 x 500 with 300-386 ppi and the filesize is much bigger. For print the exportet JPGs are well, but for the web to large. Or am I doing something completly wrong?!

 

I hope you understand what I mean. Sometimes it is difficult to explain here in english. :ph34r: secretly looking for the german Affinity board ;)

[Markus Dierolf]

I have now opend the same PDF in Affinity Designer for testing. There I can use the Document Setup and make my adjustment:

Document is web, used measurement is pixels and RGB. And perfect for my export to JPG: document size in pixels with the resolution -> 72 dpi. That fits perfect well and can be changed just for my needs.

 

But I haven't found something like that in Affinity Photo, but I thought Photo will be the better solution for such things like converting a PDF to a flat pixel document?! Is the document setup and resolution somewhere hidden and I only have overlooked it? In the Export Persona I can set Export Options, but still can't change the resolution of the export?!?!

 

The screenshot shows the Designer dialogue for the document setup which I used and was perfect for the export to JPG, just a workaround an not as elegant as it should but it's working.