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fictionalbeing
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October 16, 2012
Question

Photoshop CS5: Saving as a layered PDF- is this possible?

  • October 16, 2012
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I thought it was, but apparently it isn't... am I missing something?

Thanks for any help!

-S.

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philipj70727125
philipj70727125
Participant
May 9, 2018

If you have CS5 Illustrator open the psd file in that so that it imports the layers as objects. You can now save as a pdf from Illustrator. For a smaller file size uncheck the 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilites'. The pdf can be opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader and the layers selectively viewed.

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Bo_LeBeau
Participating Frequently
October 16, 2012

Do you have the option selected to SAVE LAYERS when saving as a Photoshop PDF?

Use the Photoshop Save/Save As dialog, don't try printing to PDF or any other method which won''t give you the layer option.

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fictionalbeingAuthor
Participant
October 16, 2012

Hey Bo,

Thanks, but I attempted it that way several times with no joy. :-(

SG...
Adobe Employee
SG...
Adobe Employee
October 16, 2012

Hi S.,

There are a few cases where text won't be rasterized, but generally Photoshop only saves out a flat rastered PDF. You can use the File> Scripts> Layer Comps to PDF... as a way to get each layer out to a single, multi-page PDF, but that's not quit the same thing.

regards,

steve

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