I could not open the whole PDF in Photoshop CS3 by right click and select Edit Page (or draw a rectangle selection by using touch up object tool, then, press Control+Double Click) in Acrobat 8 Professional. It's only 1 of the objects on the PDF open in Photoshop CS3. Is it a bug in Photoshop CS3 or Acrobat 8 Professional?
By the way, there is no problem in Photoshop 6, the PDF can be open as whole page.
Note: Both Image/Object & Page editor set as Photoshop.
The behaviour you describe is the way the Touch-Up object tool should be working. Each image is a seperate item in the PDF, so the Touch-Up tool only selects an individual object. If you create a PDF file from InDesign, then you may have several objects that overlap, and each can be edited as a seperate item in Photoshop. Try opening the file in Illustrator if you want to break the file open and work with the individual components together. In fact, if you shift-select the images, then they will open into Illustrator so they can maintain the layered relation they have in the PDF. This is what Edit Page does to a file with more than one graphic element in it.
If, however, you created the PDF file in Photoshop in the first place, then you can just choose file open from Photoshop, and open the file as if it were a Photoshop file. All of the layers and transparency should be intact.
Tim
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