PDF Problems

[Chipyluna]

Hi all

Need your wisdom here.

My friend recently asked me to help her out editing a manicure map for her, she had drawn it all up and just wanted me to add some finishing touches to it, she scanned this to me, I am fairly used to opening PDF files in Photoshop, but was a bit confused when it opened the file but a lot of the areas of text and imagery, seemed to be blocked out, as if someone had painted a big square of white over the top left and majority of the bottom of the page, since I have tried to open numerous PDF files and still come up against the issue.

Any thoughts?  Is it the PDF, Photoshop, or possible the security measure of the PC I am using.

Thank you all in advance

Charlotte

[Test Screen Name]

How does the PDF look in Acrobat or Reader?

[Chipyluna]

It looks Perfectly normal in Reader. It almost looks like a security issue, I ve just tried opening an invoice and it has clocked out the content and part of the logo.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Can you provide the pdf?

If not please at east provide screenshots of the converted pdf in Photoshop and of the pdf in Acrobat.

Does it contain spot colors?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

The issue might be an overprinting issue.

Can you provide the pdf?

I am fairly used to opening PDF files in Photoshop

In general that is not advisable, pdfs should be edited in an appropriate application to avoid unnecessarily rasterising vector and type content.

[Chipyluna]

This is what i see when it opens in PS

This is it in Reader

[Chipyluna]

Normally they are just to crop and straighten out after a scan.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What kind of scan and why did they scan as pdf and not a pixel image format?

What kind of processing does the scanning software perform for pdfs (does it use OCR to create type elements for example)?

Can you provide the pdf?

[Chipyluna]

I have no idea why they sent it that way, and the second question sorry I have no idea.

Where abouts can I upload the pdf?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Apparently this Forum does not allow uploading pdf so you would have to use some file transfer service.

But you could also open the pdf in Illustrator and check the Layers and Links Panels to see if the pdf consists of multiple images and text elements.

[Chipyluna]

I'll give it a bash, thank you all for your help.

Charlotte

[Test Screen Name]

I suspect these may have been added as comments in Acrobat, different from the rest. Not editable in Photoshop If so. And editing a non-scanned PDF in Photoshop is a disaster anyway, just don’t. If you want to collaborate on a design you need to both use the same app