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Inspiring
May 11, 2012

P: PDF import show edge artifacts on tiled PDF images (bug in PDF creation)

  • May 11, 2012
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When importing a PDF with images, Photoshop CS6 adds faint outlines to the PDF image segments in the file. Prior versions of Photoshop render the PDF correctly. See the attached image for an example.

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Inspiring
September 20, 2013
Again, the old rasterization code also shows artifacts - that won't help.

And for some reason we can't get the teams responsible to talk about the problem of the way they make the PDF files.
Participating Frequently
September 20, 2013
yes cris, this could also be real and the truth, BUT (!!!) we need a working solution to be able to continue our work. OK? why its not possible to implement the older rasterize method in photoshop as an option? so we could choose? Or just make a standalone droplet/app just for rasterizing the pdf's using the old CS4 code? is this toooo much effort and work? Come on: you guys make this little app in no time, right= 😉
Or should we try to use GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) or GIMPSHOP (http://www.gimpshop.com/) for rasterizing the pdf's (and maybe more)?

WE JUST NEED A SOLUTION !!!
Inspiring
September 20, 2013
Please read the previous discussions.

No, that is not a fact, and is false. Previous versions also showed artifacts, just at different resolutions, and sometimes less noticeable.

And I am repeating the facts: the problem is in the PDF files, because of the poorly tiled images. Those are created by the app that created the PDF. There is no good way to rasterize the PDF and avoid the artifacts caused by the tiled images in the PDF files.
Inspiring
September 20, 2013
But it is a fact that it worked before, now it doesn't. The only thing that changed is photoshop, the applications used to create PDFs are the same.
So repeating this does not make it the truth. 😉
Inspiring
September 19, 2013
Please read the previous comments - this is not a bug in Photoshop, just a bug in the applications that created the PDF files. Changes to Photoshop are highlyl unlikely to fix a bug in the PDF files.
Inspiring
September 19, 2013
Just checked in the latest photoshop CC update and it is still there! Very very disappointing.
Inspiring
August 21, 2013
It is an improvement. The fact that it exposed bugs in the PDF files created by other apps doesn't mean that the antialiasing did not improve in quality, and that the files don't render faster. And the old rendering STILL showed artifacts on these files. The change in rendering just made the problems in the PDF files more visible, but the problems in the PDF files existed even before the rendering change.
Please, read the existing posts in this topic.
Participating Frequently
August 21, 2013
And you are not getting tired in calling this an "improvement". Which kind of PDF should profit from this improved rendering when the most complicated file type, for which the old rendering process was perfect and which was often the only possibility for putting the tiled images together again, ist not working anymore. Probably Adobe thinks, that this feature is not really an important one, but this is wrong, because there is no similar function throughout the whole Creative Suite. It is very sad: I do not have any hope, that this issue comes to a conclusion.
Inspiring
August 20, 2013
Again, the problem is with the PDF file and the tiled images inside that file. CS6 just made it visible more often by using improved rendering quality.
Participating Frequently
August 20, 2013
Chris, that is right. But the issue is, that since CS6 the artifacts appear always, even when you render it with the original or higher resolution. As I mentioned before: When the artifacts didn't appear, when you rendered it at the original or higher resolution, then we had no problem, because we could render it this way and reduce the picture size in a second step. But this is not possible, because the artifacts show up on ANY resolution.