Batch Convert PDF's to JPG's.

Hi Jim --

Sure. You can build a batch file. Choose [b]Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Sequences[/b] to open the dialog.1. Click New Sequence.
2. Name the sequence in the field that displays.
3. In the Edit Batch Sequence dialog that displays (lots of dialog boxes here!) click Output Options.
4. In the Output Options dialog, click the Save Files As dropdown arrow and choose JPEG. You can also choose folders on this dialog according to your workflow.
5. Click OK twice to return to the original batch Sequences dialog.
6. Click Run Sequence to try it.

donna.

Hi again Jim --

Yikes. With all the dialogs I missed one! If you try to run the batch I wrote you'd be rather irritated as nothing happens!

You have to add some sort of command for the batch to perform. In Step 3 I referenced the Edit Batch Sequence dialog -- click Select Commands on that dialog to open another dialog named Edit Sequence.

There are a list of commands at the left. Scroll through and find one that is fairly innocuous, such as Flatten Layers and click Add to move it into the active command list.

Click OK to return to the aforementioned Edit Batch Sequence dialog, and continue with my first set of steps.

donna.

Dear Donna,

Work's great!

Thanks so much!
Jim

Thanks for the great tip - very useful to know about the revised step 3/ having to add an action: it solved an issue I was having. Much appreciated!

Ah, Just figured out that I had missed your step about choosing folder location/destination.

Came up with these full, in-order steps:

1. If you want to place the resulting JPEGs in their own folder, create a folder for them. Otherwise, skip to the next step. I figure it’s safest to at least temporarily have them all go to a separate folder, to easily later check that they were all created.
2. Open Adobe Acrobat.
NOTE: Don’t open Acrobat by opening a file you want to convert, because that open file won’t be converted automatically if you do that.
3. From within Acrobat, select Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Processing.
4. In the resulting dialog box, click New Sequence.
5. Create a name for the sequence (such as PDFToJPEG) and click OK.
6. Click Select Commands.
7. In the resulting Edit Batch Sequence dialog box: In section 1’s list of commands, choose some innocuous task, such as Flatten Layers, click Add, and then click OK.
8. In section 2 “Run commands on,” select “Selected Folder” (or other appropriate option) click Browse, and navigate to the folder where the PDFs you want to convert are located.
9. In section 3 “Select output location,” select the location where you want the resulting converted files to be placed, clicking Browse as needed to specify.
10. Click Output Options.
11. In the Output Options dialog, click the Save Files As dropdown arrow and choose JPEG (or whatever format you want to Convert to). You can also choose folders on this dialog according to your workflow.
12. Click OK twice to return to the original batch Sequences dialog.
13. Click Run Sequence to try it.

Thanks for the tip! :)

Does anyone know how to create a batch sequence in Acobat 9 Pro that will execute:

Open file
Got To > Advanced> Print Production > Flatten Preview
Select "Convert All Text to Outlines"
Save the File

It seems that the setting in Flatten Preview must be selected manually for each file.

There doesn't even seem to be a "preference" setting - just the default.

Any suggestions? I need to convert text to outlines on a lot of files.

Thanks!

I would use the preflight tool to create a new preflight fixup and use the flatten transparency command. Once this new fix-up has been created - you can even create a 'droplet' (still from the preflight menu) and then drop all PDFs onto this for batch processing - it's rather cool !

Hope this helps and let us know if you require any more help?

Cheers

Jon

Thank you for posting this. It really helped me.

How about when there are dubble pages within 1 PDF file, for example a magazine file. It there another option than first processing it and cropping the left side for 50% and the processing again and now cropping the rightside with 50% and the renaming all the files? (this is a good option with 10 pages, but a time consuming one with 400 pages).

Awesome, you saved my day!

Can You also tell me, how to get a bunch of jpgs into a pdf file?

---> Ok, I found a way, I use Word. But aint there a more elegant one, one that converts a whole folder without me having to drag n drop each file?

Adobe Bridge will convert folders or selections of images into a PDF contact sheet / slideshow. Most third-party image viewers (IrfanView, FastStone, etc) also produce contact sheets that you can print to PDF by sending them to Distiller.

I was able to do what is described above, however the metadata (keywords, copyright notice, etc.) is not retained. I have tried adding "description" to the commands portion of the batch processing sequence with "leave as is" selected but that did not work. Please help Thanks