Round-Trip Editing An Image - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

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Fine-tune images at the last minute and still make that deadline. Round-
trip editing lets you work from Acrobat, make changes to content in
another program, and then integrate those changes automatically in the
PDF document. You use the TouchUp Object tool and a designated edit-
ing program, such as Photoshop or Fireworks, to make changes that are
then returned to the PDF document: round-trip editing at its finest. You
can even select several images and change them all at once.
Follow these steps to change image content:
1. Select the TouchUp Object tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar, and
right-click (Control-click) the image or images you want to edit to open
the shortcut menu.
2. Choose Edit Image. Your specified image editor opens, and displays
the image or images.
3. Make your changes. If you have added any layers, choose Layer > Flatten
Image to flatten the layers.
4. Choose File > Save. The image is saved, closed, and replaced in Acrobat
(Figure 60).
Figure 60 Make changes to images, like the "before" image
at the top, within Acrobat. The "after" image at the bottom
has had the background faded and a radial blur applied.
round-trip editing
an image
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Image Editing Oops
Watch out for some things that
can make your editing experi-
ence less than miraculous:
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A resized image's loca-
tion will often need
tweaking in Acrobat. Use
the TouchUp Object tool
to reorganize the con-
tent if required.
•
Transparency is pre-
served only for masks
specified as index val-
ues in an image using
indexed color.
•
When you change image
modes, such as from RGB
to grayscale, your image
may not be saved auto-
matically; instead, Photo-
shop opens a Save dialog
and will save the image
as a Photoshop PDF sep-
arate from your original
PDF document.
•
Not every image can be
read. If you see a check-
erboard instead of your
image, you can't edit using
the round-trip method.
Check your Photoshop
configuration.
•
If the image looks a little
odd when it opens in
Photoshop, check the
pixel aspect ratio. Acrobat
instructs Photoshop to
use pixel aspect ratio cor-
rection for previewing.
From the Library of Daniel Dadian