# Grabbing the eps file out of a pdf doc

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**Created:** [September 14, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-eps-file-out-of-a-pdf-doc/64276 "2004-09-14T20:01:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![DDD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-eps-file-out-of-a-pdf-doc/64276/1 "2004-09-14T20:01:38Z")

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Is there a way to grab the eps files out of a pdf document? I think I remember doing this before but I cannot remember how or if I even did it. I have acrobat professional. Any ideas?

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**Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-eps-file-out-of-a-pdf-doc/64276/2 "2004-09-14T21:56:09Z")

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I think once it’s in pdf you can only grab text, I haven’t tried EPS…

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-eps-file-out-of-a-pdf-doc/64276/3 "2004-09-15T01:26:17Z")

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Open it in Illustrator

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-the-eps-file-out-of-a-pdf-doc/64276/4 "2004-09-15T15:21:09Z")

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sorry, but i’m pretty shure you can’t take out the EPS file once it’s been compiled in a PDF. What you can do, if your trying to get a picture out or something, is to open it in photoshop and rasterize it to like 300 ppi, and then just take out the picture with the marquee tool or the crop tool and save it as a .eps. :hr:

Let me know if you find some other, more “proffesionall” way to take out a eps from a pdf :hugegrin:

**[COLOR=Red]ADITIONALL INFO![/COLOR]** What do ya know… that “open in Illustrator” thing worked just fine :bu: kewl… didn’t work in Freehand thoug… (-:

THX for the tipp… may come in handy some day! 😛