Creating Album from Saved PDFs

[meganwhitney]

I'd love help with a workflow for creating a book. Is there a way to take a multi-page PDF and use the image processor in Bridge to create .png or .jpg of each page? Trying to automate this project as much as possible because it's very emotional. Basically take an 11 page PDF and create 11 JPGs using Image Processor or some other automated method.

I'm currently using CS5 (including Bridge CS5 because CC Bridge doesn't play nicely with CS5), but would be willing to buy PSE or use CC for a month or two while finishing this project.

Here's the long story of what I'm doing: I'm creating a memorial book for my FIL with all of the Facebook posts from when my MIL was dying of cancer and after she died. Facebook doesn't make it easy to get posts AND the comments (which the comments are what he wanted most of all), so I'm opening each Facebook post and printing it to PDF. If I use A4 or Letter size, it's coming out with decent quality to put into the book software I'm using, and I can easily fit 2 pages of comments per page in the book without a bunch of fussy resizing that I'm afraid will make the entire thing look scrappy and inconsistent, and also take a lot of time. Sometimes it annoyingly cuts the page in the middle of comments, so I still have to figure that one out, but adding in a couple fussy comments is easier than anything else I've tried.

Her first Birthday in Heaven in mid-November, so I'd like to make this as quickly as I can. I know this falls outside of your realm of expertise, but I've asked a few other places and wonder if you know how to do this. I've been working on this for the past 5 weeks and keep getting stuck because it feels too fussy and I know there must be an easier way. I'm using Blurb to print, and they will drag in all of the photos by date, so I feel like if I can automate the creation of the .jpgs from the .pdfs, then the rest will be pretty simple, and just looking for comments that were lost in the cut. I'm not sure there's a way to not cut out the comments in the page breaks, but if you know how to do that as well, that would make it even easier.

Thank you in advance for helping me with this weird situation.

[Damien Symonds]

2 hours ago, meganwhitney said:

I'd love help with a workflow for creating a book. Is there a way to take a multi-page PDF and use the image processor in Bridge to create .png or .jpg of each page?

Just use Photoshop to open the PDF.  When you get the Import PDF screen, make sure you select ALL the pages at once:

(Your screen will look a bit different to this.)

Then when all the pages open in Photoshop, you can use File>Scripts>Image Processor to quickly save them all in the format you want.

[meganwhitney]

2 hours ago, Damien Symonds said:

Just use Photoshop to open the PDF.  When you get the Import PDF screen, make sure you select ALL the pages at once:

(Your screen will look a bit different to this.)

Then when all the pages open in Photoshop, you can use File>Scripts>Image Processor to quickly save them all in the format you want.

Thank you! This was my instinct too, but it's not working.

I tried this and selected:

1. Use Open Images

2. Selected the folder I want to save them in

3. Save as JPEG quality 10, Convert profile to sRGB

4. Include ICC Profile

And I had an error message pop up:

"There were no source files that could be opened by Photoshop"

[Damien Symonds]

No, you have to open all the pages in Photoshop first.  So that they're all open in tabs on your screen.

[meganwhitney]

I did. I selected all of them to open them all. There are 11 tabs open. I can save each of them individually when I do it this way, but it won’t let me do it via image processor. 

[Damien Symonds]

Rats.

Ok, it'll have to be individual, sorry.

[meganwhitney]

Thanks for the confirmation that I have to do it the hard way. I’ve been searching for the easy way for weeks. Should have asked here first. Thanks for your time!