¡¶Creating a multipage PDF¡· There's no such thing as a multi-page document in Photoshop, and as a result
you spend your time selecting, editing, and printing one image at a time.
But there is a notable exception.
You can combine multiple images into a multi-page PDF document.
In this movie I'm going to show you how that command works, but first I want
you to see a few more items in a File Info dialog box that'll come into play in just a moment.
So with this image open Boy in yellow.jpg I'll go up to the File menu and
choose the File Info command, and I want you to notice some of these fields in
the Description panel.
First of all, we've got a Title, and all these images hail from the Fotolia image library.
So I've gone ahead and entered their file numbers in the Title field.
There's also an Author field right there Jason Stitt, the guy who captured
all of these images.
There's a Copyright notice, and then there's a Description.
And all these fields can be reproduced inside the PDF document.
The other thing you can add to the document is Camera Data.
So if I switch over to the Camera Data tab we can see that among other things
we've Exposure data. All right.
I'll go ahead and Cancel out of this dialog box just want you to have your bearings
before we choose this next command.
To make it multi-page PDF Document you go to the File menu, you choose Automate,
and then you choose PDF Presentation.
Now the first step is to select the files that you want to add to the document.
Do that by clicking on the Browse button, and then I'm going to switch Files of
type to JPEG so I can see just the seven JPEG images in this folder.
I go ahead and select them, and then click on the Open button.
Now drop down to the Output options.
You can if you like create a PDF file that serves as an on-screen presentation.
And to do that just click on the Presentation option, which makes a handful of
additional options available down here at the bottom of the screen, for example,
you can choose for the images to automatically Advance, and you can set the
duration for each slide.
You can Loop after the slideshow is over so the presentation plays until the
user hits the Escape key.
And then finally, you can specify a Transition such as a simple Fade.
However, I want to create a multi-page print document.
So I'm going to switch back to Multi-Page Document.
I want the background to be White, because I am printing it.
I do want to include the file name below the image along with its Extension.
I want to include the Title, the Description, the Author, the Copyright, and the EXIF Info.
The EXIF Data is that Camera Data that I showed you at the end, and I'm also
going to reduce the Font Size to 10.
Now I'll click on the Save button and Photoshop asked me where I want to save
the PDF file, I'll go ahead and put inside the 11_print folder, and I will call
this file Jason Stitt photos, and then I'll click the Save button.
That'll bring up the PDF options dialog box I recommend you leave Optimized for
Fast web Preview turned on, and that you also turn on View PDF After Saving so
you can see the file once it's done.
Then switch to Compression, right now it's set to Downsample these images to
300 pixels per inch, and apply JPEG Compression with maximum Image Quality,
which is probably just fine.
But if you have very high resolution images, and you want to retain their pixels
then you could set this option to Do Not Downsample.
If you want to assign a password then skip ahead to Security, and you can define
your passwords here.
Then once you're done go ahead and click on the Save PDF button in order to
create that PDF document.
A few moments later you'll see the document open automatically either in the
free Adobe Reader or, in my case, in Acrobat Pro by clicking on the final icon in the second row.
Then I can just page through these images as I like, and now at this point I
could take this document and email it to a client or coworker.
And that's how you assemble a bunch of disparate images into a multi-page PDF document here inside Photoshop.