Help with Adobe Acrobat

[bugmeister]

Can anyone help please. I have a copy of a business card on a pdf file. I want to copy and paste the whole item to create some basic stationary in a Word format.

Currently it will let me highlight the text part of the card, but not the logo. Even choosing the select all command will only highlight the text.

Is there any way around this - email me off line if it is easier.

Nothing dodgy by the way, it is my wifes business card and i am creating the statioanry for her.

Thanks in anticipation

Stu Ferris

[bigtone]

Just take a screen shot (Alt+PrtScr) paste it into word, and use Word's built in crop function to take the rest of the screen.

[Mrs Fish]

Do you have Photoshop? You can open it in there and change it to an .eps if you have Quark or a .jpg. You can then import it into whatever you want.

[bugmeister]

bigtone said:

Just take a screen shot (Alt+PrtScr) paste it into word, and use Word's built in crop function to take the rest of the screen.

Taken the screen shot OK, but not sure what you mean by the crop function. I only seem to be able to take out the whole picture or nothing at all.

[bugmeister]

Mrs Fish said:

Do you have Photoshop? You can open it in there and change it to an .eps if you have Quark or a .jpg. You can then import it into whatever you want.

Sorry no photoshop.

[bigtone]

Paste into word, click the image and on the drawing toolbar (may appear at the top, may be floating) there is a crop button (two right angles crossing). Drag the corner handles of the image in until you just see what you want to see.

Failing that, fire it over, i'll crop it and send it back

Tony

>> Edited by bigtone on Tuesday 30th September 12:08

[.Mark]

You could always try a piece of software called ScreenRip (freeware I believe).
It will allow you to select just the portion you want and then you can copy in to whereever you want.

Drop me a line through my profile if you struggle to find it - I swear by it.

[bugmeister]

bigtone said:

Paste into word, click the image and on the drawing toolbar (may appear at the top, may be floating) there is a crop button (two right angles crossing). Drag the corner handles of the image in until you just see what you want to see. Failing that, fire it over, i'll crop it and send it back - [e-mail] Tony

YHM

[bigtone]

Heading back your way Stu!

Tony

[HiRich]

In the Acrobat Reader toolbar there is a text grab button (A big T with a marquee rectangle). Use that to grab the text (copy it, then paste it elsewhere.

If you click-and-hold on the same button you get other options, specifically a graphics grab button.

Use that to grab any graphic. You might need a graphics programme to manipulate it (or convert it from eps to a bitmap format. Graphic Converter allows all this on Mac - not sure what works for PC)

Sorted. Respect due.

[arcturus]

If you have Omni Page Pro OCR software (V11 or above I think), then you have another option. You can tell it to us the pdf as an input file and convert it to Word format as though it had just scanned it and OCR'd it.

Dave
www.arctsys.co.uk

>> Edited by arcturus on Tuesday 30th September 23:30