First, make a backup copy of your PDF so that you can go back to where you started at any time.
Open your PDF in Acrobat and locate the drawing you want to rasterize. Activate the TouchUp Object tool (Tools >Advanced Editing >TouchUp Object, in Acrobat 6) and try to select the drawing. This usually requires patience and experimentation because one illustration might use dozens of separate drawing objects. And, it usually is tangled with other items on the page that you don't want to rasterize.
First, try dragging out a selection rectangle that encloses the artwork. If other, unwanted items get caught in your dragnet, try dropping them from your selection by holding down the Shift key and clicking them. If you missed items that you wanted to select, you can add them the same way: Shift-click. The Shift key is a useful way to incrementally add or remove items from your current selection. You can even hold down the Shift key while dragging out a selection rectangle. Items in the rectangle will be toggled in or out of the current selection, depending on their previous state.
If you accidentally move an item, immediately press Ctrl-Z (Edit >Undo) to restore it. If things ever get messed up, close the PDF without saving it and reopen it to start again.
Open your PDF in Acrobat and locate the drawing you want to rasterize. Activate the TouchUp Object tool (Tools >Advanced Editing >TouchUp Object, in Acrobat 6) and try to select the drawing. This usually requires patience and experimentation because one illustration might use dozens of separate drawing objects. And, it usually is tangled with other items on the page that you don't want to rasterize.
First, try dragging out a selection rectangle that encloses the artwork. If other, unwanted items get caught in your dragnet, try dropping them from your selection by holding down the Shift key and clicking them. If you missed items that you wanted to select, you can add them the same way: Shift-click. The Shift key is a useful way to incrementally add or remove items from your current selection. You can even hold down the Shift key while dragging out a selection rectangle. Items in the rectangle will be toggled in or out of the current selection, depending on their previous state.
If you accidentally move an item, immediately press Ctrl-Z (Edit >Undo) to restore it. If things ever get messed up, close the PDF without saving it and reopen it to start again.
3 comments:
When you have selected the vector drawing with the TouchUp Object tool, what do you do to actually convert them to a raster?
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Tom
This is post explains some short cuts and other methods for working well with Acrobat. Sometimes I failed to few operations as my document opens in Adobe and I am unable to made changes in Acrobat. This post is very useful.
Just what i need. Thanks man
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