Exporting Images in Various Graphics Formats

To save all the graphic images in the current PDF document, choose Advanced➪Export All Images. The Export All Images As dialog box appears, enabling you to save the images in one of four different file formats that you select from the Save As Type drop-down list:

• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): Choose this file format for true color compressed images.
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics): Choose this file format for compressed bitmap images.
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format): Choose this file format for compressed bitmap images using both text and graphics. (TIFF is usually the format used to store the paper pages you scan.)
• JPEG2000 (Joint Photographic Experts Group): Choose this file format, a newer version of JPEG that utilizes state of the art wavelet compression, for even truer color compressed images.

After you select a graphics file format from the Save As Type drop-down list, select the drive and folder where you want the images saved. As soon as you click the Save button, the program goes through the current document and saves all the images in separate graphics files in the selected folder in the designated graphics file format.
Acrobat names these new graphics files by adding sequential numbers (starting with 0001) to the filename of the original PDF document (and tacking on the filename extensions .jpg for JPEG, .png for PNG, .tif for TIFF, and .jpf for JPEG2000 files in Windows). You can rename these numerical files with descriptive, more meaningful filenames either in Windows or the Mac OS or after opening them in an image editing program, such Adobe Photoshop 7.0. If you want to save a single image as its own individual file, select the image with the Select Image tool, right-click, and choose Save Image As on its context menu. In the Save Image As dialog box that appears, choose a location for your new image file on the Save In drop-down list, enter a name for the file in the File Name text box and click Save. Because you can only select either bitmap (.bmp) or JPEG (.jpg) as a file type in the Save As Type drop-down list of this dialog box, use this method to quickly create an image file that you can open, edit, and save in a number of different image file formats in your favorite image editing program.