Barry: This is copied from the pdf Help file:
Copying and pasting text and graphics to another application You can select text or a graphic in a PDF document, copy it to the Clipboard, and paste it into a document in another application such as a word processor. You can also paste text into a PDF document note or into a bookmark. Once the selected text or graphic is on the Clipboard, you can switch to another application and paste it into another document. Note: If a font copied from a PDF document is not available on the system displaying the copied text, the font cannot be preserved. A default font is substituted..Page 54 Using Acrobat Reader To select text and copy it to the clipboard: 1 Select the text select tool , and do one of the following: To select a line of text, select the first letter of the sentence or phrase and drag to the last letter. To select multiple columns of text (horizontally), hold down Ctrl (Windows and UNIX) or Option (Mac OS) as you drag across the width of the document. To select a column of text (vertically), hold down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Option+Command (Mac OS) as you drag the length of the document. To select all the text on the page, choose Edit > Select All. In Single Page mode, all the text on the current page is selected. In Continuous or Continuous - Facing mode, most of the text in the document is selected. When you release the mouse button, the selected text is highlighted. To deselect the text and start over, click anywhere outside the selected text. The Select All command will not select all the text in the document. A workaround for this (Windows) is to use the Edit > Copy command. 2 Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to the Clipboard. 3 To view the text, choose Window > Show Clipboard..Page 55 Using Acrobat Reader In Windows 95, the Clipboard Viewer is not installed by default, and you cannot use the Show Clipboard command until it is installed. To install the Clipboard Viewer, choose Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, and then click the Windows Setup tab. Double-click Accessories, check Clipboard Viewer, and click OK. To copy graphics to the Clipboard: 1 Select the graphics select tool by holding down the mouse button on the text select tool and dragging to the graphics select tool. Or press Shift-V as necessary to cycle through the group of tools. The cursor changes to the cross-hair icon. 2 Drag a rectangle around the graphic you want to copy. To deselect the graphic and start over, click anywhere outside the selected graphic. 3 Choose Edit > Copy to copy the graphic to the Clipboard. 4 To view the graphic, choose Window > Show Clipboard. The graphic is copied using the WMF (Windows), PICT (Mac OS), or XPIXMAP (UNIX) format. In UNIX, the graphic is pasted in the primary selection. Now, I didn't put in any editing. This was a single pass, highlighted in the pdf document, copied, and pasted into Outlook. Notice that it does need a little cleanup. Be sure that you have the Continuous page mode selected, or you can only copy from any one page at a time. BTW, the pdf author can set the security to not allow copying. Ed :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-) Ed Price [email protected] Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab Cubic Defense Systems San Diego, CA. USA 858-505-2780 (Voice) 858-505-1583 (Fax) Military & Avionics EMC Services Is Our Specialty Shake-Bake-Shock - Metrology - Reliability Analysis :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Ma [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: PDF file copy method > > > > Hi, > > When reading an EMC article in PDF file, I sometimes want to > copy a couple of sentences or paragraph to my MS WORD > document. Most of times I failed. But a few times I could do > it. I don't know why. Do you have the same experience? > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
