Save as a bitmapped PDF

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- January 9, 2020 at 5:22 am #1222068
  
  gprovan
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  I regularly send clients PDF proofs but would like them to be rasterized in the process to prevent the client from using these before they’re paid for, etc.
  
  I can do this by saving as a JPG then opening in Acrobat, but is there a plugin or script that can do this quickly as part of the saving process?
- January 9, 2020 at 2:16 pm #14323316
  
  David Popham
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  Have you considered using the Security pane in the Export Adobe PDF dialog to password protect your PDF proofs? It seems like the options under Permissions would fit the bill for what you are trying to accomplish.
- January 9, 2020 at 4:01 pm #14323315
  
  David Blatner
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  I have not seen any script to do this. But perhaps there is a way to set up some kind of action or hot folder or something for Acrobat… so you can just export all the pages from InDesign as JPG and the action would quickly turn them into a single pdf.
- January 9, 2020 at 6:10 pm #14323314
  
  David Popham
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  If a secure PDF doesn’t work for your needs, you can export to PDF from InDesign and then create a Fixup in Acrobat that can convert pages to images. You can save the Fixup for future use.
  
  To Create a Fixup in Acrobat
  1. Choose Print Production from the Tools menu and choose the Preflight tool to open its dialog.
  2. Click on Options in the upper right of the dialog and choose Create Fixup… .
  3. Enter the fixup name in the Name field.
  4. From “Fixup category”, choose Pages, and then click on “Convert page content into image” from “Type of fixup”.
  5. Choose the desired image resolution, keeping in mind that a high resolution for a multipage document can create a rather large file. You may want to test the resolution that works best for your needs.
  6. Click OK. If you have a document open, it will apply to the current file.
  7. The new fixup will appear in the Preflight dialog under the Pages and can be run on any open PDF by selecting it and clicking on the Fix button in the lower right of the dialog.
- January 10, 2020 at 12:54 am #14323309
  
  Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
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  Or you could export all pages as jpg from InDesign, and then make a “Automate batch” in Photoshop, to make all jpg’s pdf. Final, combine all pdf’s to one single pdf in Acrobat :)
- January 10, 2020 at 3:24 pm #14323307
  
  Lukáš Záleský
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  Export as jpg, select all jpg, right mouse button, combine to pdf. You dont have to convert jpg to pdf. All support images(almost all) can be combined to pdf.
- January 13, 2020 at 1:19 am #14323292
  
  R Dol
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  Hi David Popham,
  
  you wrote “Have you considered using the Security pane in the Export Adobe PDF dialog to password protect your PDF proofs?”
  I use this sometimes and I get a message that its not always secure, some software could override it. Do you know more about that?
  
  I would be very happy to hear
  Thank you!
- June 3, 2021 at 5:23 pm #14339845
  
  Jon Bilson
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  Create a transparency flattener preset to all raster and set a resolution. Place a white box over artwork set to multiply. Export pdf as Acrobat 4(1.3) and select the transparency flatten setting you just created in the advanced tab. The pdf will be all raster at the resolution set by the flattened setting. You could make a pdf preset for this to save time in the future.
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