Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 77)

70 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Opening and importing images
Last updated 1/10/2010
5 If you’re placing a PDF, EPS, or Adobe Illustrator file, set the Anti-alias option in the options bar as desired. To
blend edge pixels during rasterization, select the Anti-alias option. To produce a hard-edged transition between
edge pixels during rasterization, deselect the Anti-alias option.
6 Do one of the following:
• Click Commit in the options bar or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to commit the placed artwork
to a new layer.
• Click Cancel in the options bar, or press Esc to cancel the placement.
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Place PDF or Illustrator files in Photoshop
When you place a PDF or Adobe Illustrator file, use the Place PDF dialog box to set options for placing the artwork.
1 With the destination Photoshop document open, place a PDF or Adobe Illustrator file.
2 Under Select in the Place PDF dialog box, select Page or Image, depending on what elements of the PDF document
you want to import. If the PDF file has multiple pages or images, click the thumbnail of the page or file you want
to place.
Note: Use the Thumbnail Size menu to adjust the thumbnail view in the preview window. The Fit Page option fits one
thumbnail in the preview window. A scroll bar appears if there are multiple items.
3 Under Options, choose from the Crop To menu to specify what part of the PDF or Illustrator (AI) document to
include:
Bounding Box Crops to the smallest rectangular region that includes all the text and graphics of the page. This option
eliminates extraneous white space.
Media Box Crops to the original size of the page.
Crop Box Crops to the clipping region (crop margins) of the PDF file.
Bleed Box Crops to the region specified in the PDF file for accommodating limitations inherent in production
processes such as cutting, folding, and trimming.
Trim Box Crops to the region specified for the intended finished size of the page.
Art Box Crops to the region specified in the PDF file for placing the PDF data into another application.
4 Click OK to close the Place PDF dialog box.
5 If necessary, set any positioning, scaling, skewing, rotating, warping, or anti-aliasing options in the options bar.
6 Click Commit to place the artwork as a Smart Object on a new layer of the destination document.
Paste Adobe Illustrator art into Photoshop
You can copy art from Adobe Illustrator and paste it into a Photoshop document.
1 In Adobe Illustrator, specify preferences for the copy-and-paste behavior:
• To automatically rasterize the art when pasting it into a Photoshop document, turn off the PDF and the AICB (No
Transparency Support) options in the File Handling & Clipboard preferences.