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Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout

Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout - InDesign Tutorial

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Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout

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- [Instructor] In an earlier video in this series, I talked about how to extract text from a PDF cleanly to reuse in your InDesign document. And now, I want to talk about ways to do the same for images. Now, there are actually a bunch of different ways to extract images from a PDF. And I remember when I first started out, my inclination, if the boss or my clients said, "Here's a PDF with some images that our freelancer did for us, we need you to use them," was to take a screenshot and then up its resolution in Photoshop and hope that that would work. But you really don't need to do that. As long as whoever put together this PDF did so in a reasonable way. So I'm going to show you a few different ways to extract images, to reuse in your InDesign layout. And here's the layout, the fake layout that we're using. Assume that we want to get an image into these two waiting image frames. So if somebody gave me this PDF and…

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