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TIP 44: Saving a PDF as an Image

Often you save a PDF document in a text and image formata196 or as a Word document, for example. However, you can also save a PDF document as an image. You might want to do this when:

• You want to use the content as part of another project or process.

• You want to create thumbnail images of pages for use in other documents.

• You need to protect the content in a page. Exporting as an image with security prevents text and other content changes.

To save a PDF as an image, choose File > Save As and select an image export option from the Save As pull-down list. Next click Settings to open the Settings dialog; the Save As JPEG Settings dialog is shown in Figure 44a. Modify these options according to your requirements, which vary depending on the file format you selected.

Click OK to close the Settings dialog box and to return to the Save As dialog; click OK to convert the file. Acrobat converts each page of your document to an image. The image will be the same size as the document page.

An image of a document makes a very nice link from another document. When you are building a large project incorporating several types of material, you typically link the documents together. You can use text links, but you can also use an image of the linked document, as in Figure 44b. I have a document that is linked to a slideshow. Instead of using text to link, I used a thumbnail-sized image of the first page of the slideshow. Be sure the outcome is worth the effortdon't use an image of an all-text page, for example.