Batch processing PDF to TIFF

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February 25, 2009
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Hello,

I have about 1000 drawings in PDF format that I need to convert to B/W TIFF files. I thought I could easily do this in Photoshop (CS3) and then I hit a snag. In the Open form for the PDF there is a field to enter for the filename (I think that's because of multisheet PDFs). In my case all the PDFs have been reduced to single sheets, so I want the name to be that of the PDF file. Creating an action captures the "name", but this conflicts with the options when running in batch mode. I either have the same name from the action, or no name (or the same name) from batch options. Anyone know how to get around the naming options? Or do this a different way?

Thanks.

Actions and scripting

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chapmanga

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Try the following it should produce a folder full of 300dpi Grayscale tiff based on your pdfs

var pdfOpenOptions = new PDFOpenOptions
pdfOpenOptions.antiAlias = true
pdfOpenOptions.cropPage = CropToType.MEDIABOX
pdfOpenOptions.mode = OpenDocumentMode.GRAYSCALE
pdfOpenOptions.resolution = 300
pdfOpenOptions.suppressWarnings=true

#target Photoshop
app.bringToFront;
var inFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select folder to process");
if(inFolder != null){
var fileList = inFolder.getFiles(/\.(pdf)$/i);
var outfolder = new Folder(decodeURI(inFolder) + "/Edited");
if (outfolder.exists == false) outfolder.create();
for(var a = 0 ;a < fileList.length; a++){
if(fileList instanceof File){
var doc= open(fileList ,pdfOpenOptions);
var docname = fileList .name.slice(0,-4);
while(app.documents.length){
var saveFile = new File(decodeURI(outfolder) + "/" + docname + ".tif");
SaveTiff(saveFile);
activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES) ;
}
}
}
};

function SaveTiff(saveFile)
{
tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = false;
tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression=TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, tiffSaveOptions, true,Extension.LOWERCASE);
}

rozih

Participant

Not help without instructions

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

If you don’t know what to do with the code that chapmanga posted maybe you should start with the basics of Photoshop Scripting and search for "Adobe Intro To Scripting.pdf" and "Photoshop-CS6-Scripting-Guide.pdf".