How to adjust the Snapshot pixel resolution in Adobe Acrobat Reader
Do you regularly need to capture images from PDF Files using Adobe Acrobat viewer? This tip will help you to keep those images looking sharp!
I came across this tip from Frank Kellog as a comment on a PDF data extraction tip on the CADalyst site:
‘A setting I recently found in Adobe, is under Edit | Preferences | General, there is an option to set the snapshot tool resolution to a fixed number. I use 300pixels/inch’
300 PPI is a good resolution for printed images. 96PPI would be fine for on-line documents.
You can now use the Marque snap shot tool to capture images from a PDF file at a vastly improved quality.
thank you. very helpful
Hi Paul. I have a problem which is almost the “opposite” of the one you mention here. My Adobe Reader reduces the quality of the photos on my word documents when I convert a word file to PDF (-> save as PDF). It is SO frustrating because I need to edit and re-convert my CVs from word to PDF each and every week! It also changes the fonts in my CV, for instance: sometimes it converts the headlines to normal/thin type while it’s actually bold in the original word document, and sometimes it keeps the bold type but changes all the headlines to another font! I really hope you see this message and that you can help me out, as I can’t find any answers anywhere!!
Hi Selda,
I regret that I am not an expert in Word or Adobe :(
I can only suggest that you post on the Microsoft or Adobe forums with your query?
In the meantime, here is a post on the Microsoft forums that mentions PDF quality when converting from Word:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_winother/convert-doc-to-pdf-without-losing-picture/e8a1235e-d1b5-4f86-8f81-d6696db3dbca
Here is a post on the Adobe forums that mentions Font embedding issues:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1049981
I hope that helps?
Paul
Helped me, thanks :)
No Problem Ralf :)
Thanks. it was clear and helpful.
Thanks Mojarrad :)
Thank you.. it has helped me a lot. May Allah reward you for this.
Thanks a lot.. Indeed a saver tip!
Thanks Greesh :)
Thanks for this gem.
It was very frustrating to paste and get such poor results.
You are welcome Nadav
Thanks! your post saved my laptop from a barrage of blames it would have received
Thank you.
You saved the day :-)
Great post Paul. You just saved me hours of hair pulling :-) Thanks for sharing this tip.
No Problem Ado!
Great work….The tip has almost halfed my work.
Thanks Muthu :)
hi! thanks for your post! setting the resolution of the snapshot tool by default to such a low res seems kind of strange :-/
Great idea, thanks for this post!