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olive_and_finch
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March 28, 2019
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Place PDF Places Image Portrait Only

  • March 28, 2019
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When placing a pdf in a photoshop file, can you change the orientation in which it is placed? Whenever I place a landscape oriented document, it places it in portrait mode and shrinks it to fit on the page. The linework in the files I am working with are scale-specific so anytime I manually rotate the file and transform the image to make it larger, I risk changing the exact scale of the drawing. This makes it difficult when I'm placing images of different CAD layers that I would like to import into photoshop separately and overlay them exactly on top of each other in the correct place.

Is there any way to place a pdf in landscape orientation to avoid this scaling effect?

Thanks!

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Mejor respuesta de Bojan Živković11378569
Is there any way to place a pdf in landscape orientation to avoid this scaling effect?

There is option in Preferences > General > Resize Image During Place, uncheck it and see if that helps.

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Bojan Živković11378569
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March 29, 2019
Is there any way to place a pdf in landscape orientation to avoid this scaling effect?

There is option in Preferences > General > Resize Image During Place, uncheck it and see if that helps.

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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March 28, 2019

I wouldn't use Place with a PDF file.  

Why not just open PDFs in Photoshop. 

Select All (Ctrl / Cmd + A).

Copy (Ctrl / Cmd + C).

Paste (Ctrl / Cmd + V) onto a new layer.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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olive_and_finchAutor
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March 28, 2019

The only issue here is that I'm turning each pdf into a smart object and whenever I replace contents, I believe it just replaces the file via the place function, right? Whenever I just replace the pdf to show the updates it turns it anyways.

    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    March 28, 2019

    I am sorry, I don't understand the problem.

    You can copy & paste onto a new layer, right?

    Select new  layer from Layers panel.

    Right click and Convert to Smart Object.

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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