: Extract vector graphics from PDF in photoshop I have a pdf which I want to extract a high resolution / vector graphics format from. When I open the PDF with Preview I can zoom in forever

@Nimeshi706

You can't get vector from a PDF with Photoshop. Photoshop rasterizes everything when you open a PDF. That is unless the PDF was created by Photoshop with Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities on. In my experience, those type of PDFs are rare. But it can happen. If you do have one of those PDFs, just opening it with Photoshop will show the layers... including shape, vector, or smart object layers. So you'd be done. :)

In the event you don't have a Photoshop-generated PDF, you can just drag the PDF to Photoshop and set it to open at whatever PPI you want. Just change the Resolution field.



Then you can crop, copy/paste, or whatever you need to do to get the individual images.

For raster, or 3D, images within the PDF you can open those independently by ticking the appropriate box at the top left corner of the Import PDF dialog window.



Unfortunately, all vector graphics won't be seen as separate objects, so they get rasterized (along with type and everything else).

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@Hamm6457569

If you have Illustrator just open the PDF page with gold circles and you will get perfectly crisp edges at any resolution.

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