Open multipage PDF to add images, then save as multipage PDF

[Jason Semko]

I read a solved post on this forum where someone wanted to make a calendar, they used Adobes template calendar where the user adds their own images to the document. This document is 28 pages long. Here was my theory:

Open up the 28 page document in photoshop...edit the pages that need editing...File...Save...Done!

However, when the 28 page document is opened, ALL 18 pages are separated and do not save BACK as a multipage document. They are now 28 separate files!

Surely Photoshop has a solution to this as I'm sure it's a common task to edit a few pages of a PDF document and then re-save it. At least I hope!

Thanks!

[370H55V]

I've never tried saving a multipage PDF in anything other than Acrobat with a very limited exception.

I have merged several Photoshop PDFs into a single document by pasting them all into a single, very large Photoshop document (PSD) then using the "Save to PDF" option from the Mac Print dialogue.

[Guest]

Probably the easiest thing to do is to setup each page and save as a separate file. Then open the calendar pdf in Acrobat (which I hope you have), then one by one replace each page with the one you created out of photoshop, then save as a new pdf.

[370H55V]

Do you get a dialogue box similar to this one when you open it?

[Jason Semko]

Yes I did, looks exact. I selected ALL the images at once, and then one at a time in the attempt to save them together. Couldn't get it.

[370H55V]

Photoshop, a photo editor, will not save PDF files in bunches, or recompile them to a single document..

It's the same if you open an animated GIF you can edit and save one frame at a time, but they will all save as individual GIFs, Without Fireworks, you can't put them back together as one. That's because animated GIF's aren't native to Photoshop, just as compiled PDFs are native to Acrobat and not Photoshop.

I played around with this file, and I was able to open individual pages, then save them as individual PDFs.

In order to reassemble the Calendar, I had to go to Acrobat and create a new PDF from multiple files (the original and the Photoshop saves) Then I "dumped" the "(month) image here" pages, and inserted the correct picutre page for each month I did. Using Acrobat you can change the order of the pages and set them so it looks right. Photoshop doesn't have that feature because it's not a PDF compiler/editor.  It will make PDFs, but you need Acrobat to put them together and sort them out.

[Paul Riggott]

If you are using Photoshop CS3 you can use - File - Automate - PDF presentation

For CS4 you would use Bridge to create the pdf, select Output then PDF