This how-to article will show you how easy and pain free it is to create an Adobe PDF album.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the photos you want to add to this album.  You’ll see that in this example we picked multiple formats – CR2, MOS and CRW.  Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Selecting a range of photo formats with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Choose PDF album and you will have a great range of options.  The default format is PDF, but you can also choose Postscript if needed.  The layout, highlighted in blue, allows you to pick page orientation, resolution, page size, number of photos per page and even the spacing between the photos.  Hit Start to continue.

Creating a PDF album with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 3 – Name your file

Click start and you will be prompted to select a location and name for the album file.  Hit Save to continue.

Name that Album with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

All done!

Your album will be created at a fraction the size of the original 8 photos.  Ideal for somebody who needs to preview the photos – but has no need to have the actual HUGE image files.

Successful PDF album creation with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

And lets take a look at what this two page album will look like:

PDF Album

Open up Contenta Converter PREMIUM and use the Add Photos button to attempt to open up an EPS, PS or PDF file.

If the file opens up and displays, then you already have the Ghostscript software installed and you do not need to follow any of these steps.  However, if you see the following screen than you will need to do this one time install of the Ghostscript software.

Ghostscript Software Installation Required

Click on the link http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and you will be taken to this page in your browser (your display for the next few screens may vary slightly based on which Internet Browser software you are using).  Select the top entry for the latest release of the Ghostscript software.  In this example it is version 8.63.

Home Page for GhostScript software

You will see this next screen and you can select  the site to use for downloading.  We suggest Sourceforge as the most robust site to use – though all sites will have the exact same software.

Select a software download site

If you select Sourceforge you will see this screen – the other sites will have similar screens to review.  If you have software to work with .gz or .bz2 compressed files than you may select that.  We selected the gs863s32.exe since that file will open and run on most PCs. You will need to save  this file to your PC.

Select a version of the GhostScript software

Once the file is download, double click on the file to start the installation program. You will see a screen similar to this and you should select RUN.

Accept the Ghostscript download

The next screen will be similar to this and you should select SETUP.

Ghsotscript Software Setup

On this screen you will need to select the directory to install the Ghostscript software into. Be sure to jot down this location as you will need to know it later on.

Select where to install the Ghostscript Software

You will see some installation screens scroll by and then a Windows Explorer screen (again dependent on your version and setup) that is similar to this will display and you know the installation is complete!

Ghostscript Software Installed

Now you can return to the Contenta Converter PREMIUM screen and enter in the location of the Ghostscript software and select Ok.

Ghostscript Software Installation Required

You will see this confirmation screen and the process is done!  You can now use Contenta Converter PREMIUM with PS, EPS and PDF files.  Remember this was just a one-time process.

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As powerful as PDF is for screen and print display, you really need to convert an image file to a graphical format for editng. This is where Contenta Converter PREMIUM can be a huge assist.  Using Contenta Converter PREMIUM you can load a PS file and convert it toone of many other graphics formats.  I will demonstrate the quick and easy way to do this with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .PDF photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

If you get a message about Configuring Ghostscript than you will need to complete a one-time setup and instructions can be found here.  After completing that install, you can return here to complete your conversion.

Selecting PDF files for conversion with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” check box is checked and select the format. In this example we picked JPEG, but the drop down menu also gives you more than a dozen other formats!  You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to JPEG will be stored.

Select which format to convert to using Contenta Converter Premium

All done!

Click start and soon you will see the final screen and you will have your new .JPG file that is much smaller than the original .PS file.

File conversion success!