Whats an economical software to open pdf files and export as high res tiffs or jpegs

GIMP (free)

 

I'm fond of Scribus, also free.

 

https://www.irfanview.com/

 

I'm curious why you would want to convert from a pdf?

 

acrobat pro will always be my go-to. convert fonts to outlines, export new pdf to photoshop to flatten to whatever image format/colorprofile you want.

 

Not sure about you, but we get these wonky PDFs from time to time that really need flattened to make sure they print correctly. We just had some for a large job where Illustrator pulled them in as Non Native Art. So we opened in Photoshop, rendered at 300 1:2 and then saved as TIFF. Pulled back into Illustrator, used a custom trace and welded all that together to create a contour cut line. I had one for a reunion banner earlier this week that was "print ready" however, it'd print all these weird overprints and cause this blue and white cloud to turn black and brown. After two or three attempts at resaving we exported as JPEG and moved on.

 

ghosting transparencies.

 

Just open the pdf directly in Photoshop?

 

https://convertio.co/

 

Flexi and PDF sometimes DO NOT play well with each other!
things would be fine, you would get lax on doing your pre-flight check. BAM print a job (usually substantial) only to see the issue AFTER it was printed


this is one reason we got rid of Flexi, especially after we got burned on over 2,360 SQFT of mesh banner being printed wrong......

 

Ouch, I'm not totally familiar with flexi, but I'm guessing it functions as a RIP? What software did you move to?

 

it is a Design Program / RIP combo,

we moved to Caldera

 

PDFs can be problematic in any program. I have had colour issues and weird banding printing a PDF from Versaworks. Finally tried saving as an eps and all was well.

 

Always used Photoshop for this when needed. I can't recall a time when it didn't interpret a PDF correctly.

 

I have no problem doing what you describe in SL.

 

Photoshop is the only tool I would trust for converting PDF to TIFF reliably.

Acrobat can do a nearly identical job of it, except it doesn't anti-alias, so you get jagged edges that you can only compensate for by exporting at a much higher resolution.