I downloaded a large file of a map and saved it as a postscript file. When opened, the postscript files are converted to a string of concatenated .pdf files, and my map is presented as a line of A4 pages each containing a bit of the picture. 

How may I explode the concatenated images to become
1) individual .tif etc images with no loss of resolution or size?
2) the complete original map with the pieces reassembled seamlessly in their original relationship to each other with no loss of definition or size, in .tif etc and, preferably, with choice of printout preferences?

Thanks for your software.

You cannot currently use PDFClerk to extract the graphics from a PDF, so the answer to 1 is you can’t. You can only explode them into individual pages in PDF format.

As to 2, you should be able to reassemble the pages in their original relationship (but not as .tif), without loss of definition or size using an appropriate layout template and pertinent settings in the document setup. How these settings would be depends on the order of the pages in relationship to the original, and whether they have any added margins in the resulting A4 pages. To be able to help you with the settings I would need to know more about the files. You could send me the original and the resulting PDF file of pages by private mail if you like and then I can post back here, as a tutorial, the details on how to reassemble them into the original map.

For extracting graphics from PDF files you might have some luck using the shareware utility File Juicer (http://echoone.com/filejuicer/). I’ll consider the ability to export the individual pages as graphics files a feature request.

By accident I exploded 30 concatenated .pdf files as individual, separate,  .tif files, but I don’t know how! I use MacOS10.4.4.

Cheers.

Well, that’s surprising to me, since there is no code in PDFClerk that would save anything as a TIFF file. I tried getting PDFClerk to make exploded files *pose* as TIFF by adding a .tif extension to the base name when saving through the explode function, but it is smart enough not to fall for that, and a PDF document with a .tif extension would not open correctly anyway. Can you send me one of those 30 .tif files you mention, to have a look at?

By the way: these days you *can* export PDFClerk documents as individual graphics images, including, but not limited to, TIFF files. And you can control the output resolution too.