: Photoshop - missing layers while saving as pdf? I have problems saving my photoshop file as a pdf or eps vector graphic. It wont include some of the layers and I cant see why. See screenshot

@Si6392903

My solution to this issue:

Once I'm ready to export as a PDF, I select all layers and right click on them > click "Merge Layers".

Everything will be condensed into one layer, now export the PDF (The PDF should be perfect since there aren't multiple layers, smart objects, paths etc.)

After PDF export is finished just press "Ctrl+Z" (or Cmd+Z) to undo the "Merge Layers" action.

Vwella, all your layers are in tact and you have a good PDF file.

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@Harper654

Hi,
Use photoshop cs3, it will display the message in the picture, check "update" and save as pdf, all the text layers will be visible. Cheers

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@Bryan765

The reason that behaviour takes place is that you have constructed your layer shapes in the wrong way or you copied and pasted from another program like Illustrator and something went wrong with the shapes in that process.

I opened your file and discovered you have paths on your shape layers that are useless, they just sit on top of your shapes (on the same shape layer). I have deleted some of those paths to demonstrate my theory and here you go: problem fixed. You will see that some layers still have problems but some are appearing now (because I fixed those).

Click to download fixed files

How to repair a .pdf with a missing layer:


Open the .psd source file
Select in the Layers Panel the shape layer that is not showing
Select in the Tools Panel the Path Selection Tool
Click inside the shape to select
Press delete to eliminate extra paths that are sitting on top of your shape on the same layer as your shape
Save as .pdf to see the result

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@Moriarity648

Since Export Layers to Files is run by some script all I had to do was find that script, then find the function which saves the layers to files, find which part of the function does the numbering prefix.....

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@Nimeshi706

Echt interessant.

When I went and created a duplicate of the green shape that does show up in the output it worked just fine. For some reason just the cells don't show up.

If you have to do this in Photoshop then I could create one big background shape and draw black rectangles as the stroke.

But I would really recommend to remake this in Illustrator, you shouldn't run into as many issues. It shouldn't take too much work.

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@Steve758

File -> Save as -> Format : Photoshop PDF ; remove the tick mark next to "Layers" -> Save

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@Caterina889

You can try 2 things.


Raterize, and flatten all your layers, and then save it as a pdf.
Download bullzip pdf printer from here www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php instal the program, and see if it works like that


As for the pdf printer. You instal it, print your document, and at the printer settings you select bullzip PDF printer.

Hope this works.

Update:

Sorry no luck with the settings for me.

Now I've been thinking to do this in another way. I don't know if you are familiar with smart object, but it basically is merging layers into one layer, but always being able to access those layers later.

To do this you do the following.

You select either all your layers, or select your vector layers. Then right click on one of the selected layers, and choose convert to smart object. This will put all those layers in one smart object layer (not 100% sure if it stays vector though).

Then when you double click on the smart object, it will open up a new window, where you can see all the layers inside that object, and edit them, also changing them in your original document.

Then try exporting it as a PDF again, and hope for the best.

Hope this does the trick for you :)

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