i know i cannot get multi-page PDF's (slideshows) into Aperture but is there a way to /convert/ these to a file format Aperture can handle?
also, does anyone have any experience with whether i can get EPS into Aperture?
TIA
iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.3
Aperture doesn't do multi-page anything. It won't do multi-page TIFFs either (this is an actual thing). You could break up a PDF into individual pages, and import those if you want, say as a stack. That sounds awful to me 😉
I expect if you *could* get an EPS file into Aperture that you'd have the same issue.
Aperture doesn't do multi-page anything. It won't do multi-page TIFFs either (this is an actual thing). You could break up a PDF into individual pages, and import those if you want, say as a stack. That sounds awful to me 😉
I expect if you *could* get an EPS file into Aperture that you'd have the same issue.
thanks a lot william.
OK. so i am reading up on this organizational issue with my various "slideshows" and "videos" and i am not getting much help on the adobe forums. i have also read at least one mac site that is talking about storing videos in iTunes or iMovie and a couple other places that i had not thought of.
since PDF slideshow is really close to a mov or m4v slideshow (Aperture acceptable formats i think) - i am starting to get the idea that i need to store all this information as a /referenced/ database in some kind of file management organizational tool.
do you know what i mean? i seem to not need to distinguish between a promotional video/pdf/EPS image but at the same time i have the raster image of the EPS in one place (Aperture), the EPS file in Finder, the promo video in mov format in Aperture and then the PDF in someone totally other place in Finder and this is just the files that seem like they /belong/ in the same place. i mean, it is totally ignoring the hundreds of other files i have to organize.
not to sound critical but it feels like Aperture is a good tool for storing images and - well i guess it is importing the videos i take on my phone (?) and it is storing videos i /create/ in Aperture but is there anything else i should BRING IN to Aperture or should all this other data reside elsewehere in finder and be managed as such?
suggestions? (BTW apologies if we have covered this ground before but it is a beast getting it all together...)
THANKS
You asked this identical question back in12/18/ 2012 pdf into aperture ( and amusingly Bill gave the same answer)
That answer still applies drag the pdf onto the Aperture Icon the following opens
Select other then pdf and each page is imported.
Actually it will. See above.
hi frank. thank you and apologies.
this sort of thing is hard to track and manage while trying to organize other data as well.
am i correct in understanding that this method basically will import the pdf as image files (as if you ran a Save As > tiff or jpg operation in Acrobat?
i mean, i do have a need for images of my pdf's but if i am storing the pdf that they came from (which i still need) separately from the imported images this all gets a bit unmanageable.
for instance i have some drawings in a pdf. i am storing this in a folder. i now need to be able to use individual pages of pdf to see if i can get vector data out of this pdf, but i also need some raster image files of these pages. right now i am just dumping all of this into a finder folder and moving it all around with only my /memory/ to remember what is where. so i am finding i am doing a lot of reorganizing of all this data week after week and month after month. then if i add in EPS files (the vector) to all of this and the fact that i can't apparently store the multipage PDF it seems like Aperture is not the tool to use for this. or - say i have a PDF "slideshow" but also a version of this that is in mov file fomat.
it is starting to seem like Aperture is not the correct organizational tool for all of this and that i should move to some kind of managed database tool that will let me store the data as "referenced" info but also like me get some kind of "meta" organization to all of it.
right now i am organizing and re-organizing over and over to keep it corralled.
maybe DevonThink is the way to go for this? or even Bento or something...?
eh. sorry frank.
i am juggling too many tasks here and i see you answered my question exactly. it is sort of a moving target with the database organization and i am trying to think it through as i go along. apologies if this is not exactly a linear process....
Also if you import it as a pdf ,while only the first page is rendered as an image, the entire document is imported and if you drag it out you get the entire document back.
While Aperture will store the whole PDF file and give you back the whole PDF file it would not be my first choice if I was dealing with a lot of files. The search capabilities is just not there.
Using the Folder structure with Finders ability to search inside files, coupled with some scripts and smart folders would probably do a better job depending on what sort of retrieval system you needed.
regards
AOK. thanks frank.
also thanks for helping me get my thoughts sorted.
apologies for re-posting the question.
regards
EPS and PDF?
