Photoshop seems to be shrinking my PDFs?

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August 22, 2017
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Hi, I am using 2017 CC on Windows 10. I have a set of plans in A4 PDF's which I wish to join into a single plan on B0 (1414 x 1000mm) to produce some working drawings. I set a canvas to the B0 size and import the PDF's. They show as full size A 4 Documents. I crop the two long side margin. The property box shows them as the correct length for A4 29.68mm. I copy all and past onto the B4 canvas document. The properties of the layer now show the document as only 19.97mm.

When I past in the full width the image has shrunk and no longer fills up the B) Canvas. How do I get the image not to resize please?

Thank You

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Correct answer Mylenium

Your document DPI settings don't match. Check them.

Mylenium

@mj

Community Expert

When placing your PDFs, you will get the Place dialog.

Choose Media Box on the top right.

More info here. Place files in Photoshop

HTH

P

PusserAuthor

Participant

Thank you. The issue was with resolution. I thought my PDFs were 300 ppi but on checking they were 200. However I did learn something from your response that I was unaware of. Again, many thanks

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Do the pdfs contain vector data?

If so you may want to stop degrading it and either work in a vector oriented application or at least place them as Smart Objects (which will still produce pixel output but at least multiple transformations do not accumulate image degradation).

Anyway you forgot to mention the resolutions (of the receiving file and the converted pdfs).