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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / April 2006Copying PDF into Word
I am unsuccesffuly trying to copy a multipage PDF file into Word. The PDF file is mixed text and pictures. If I just use copy after selecting all, it just copies the text. If I use insert picture, it just copies the first page of the file. Is there a way that I can get it to copy all of the pages as a picture? Ed O'Brien edlobrien@dslextreme.com Hi Edwin: No. PDF is designed to prevent this. You have two choices: 1) Buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat. That will extract formatted text and pictures from PDF 2) Take the text (only) one page at a time, and reformat it when you get it into Word. Then take the pictures across one picture at a time and re-insert them into the document. The second is the method I would use. Set up styles for the formatting so reformatting becomes a very quick process of a few clicks. Word will not allow a picture to break across pages. Cheers On 27/4/06 10:03 AM, in article C0755872.139%edlobrien@earthlink.net, "Edwin O'Brien" <edlobrien@earthlink.net> wrote: > I am unsuccesffuly trying to copy a multipage PDF file into Word. The PDF > file is mixed text and pictures. If I just use copy after selecting all, it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Ed O'Brien edlobrien@dslextreme.com  SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 >I am unsuccesffuly trying to copy a multipage PDF file into Word. The PDF > file is mixed text and pictures. If I just use copy after selecting all, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Ed O'Brien edlobrien@dslextreme.com If all you want to do is insert the entire page as an uneditable image, another idea would be to have the Standard/Full/Pro version (not just Reader) and save the PDF as a set of .jpg images which can be inserted a page at a time. This works very well and looks excellent even for text. -Mark > If all you want to do is insert the entire page as an uneditable image, > another idea would be to have the Standard/Full/Pro version (not just > Reader) and save the PDF as a set of .jpg images which can be inserted a > page at a time. This works very well and looks excellent even for text. There's a free utility that will split the pdf to let you do that, though I haven't tried it myself. http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/ SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > There's a free utility that will split the pdf to let you do that, though > I > haven't tried it myself. > http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/ Thanks for the heads up on that utility. I'll have to try it out. It appears that it will be very helpful at home where I do not have the full version of Acrobat. -Mark >> There's a free utility that will split the pdf to let you do that, though >> I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > appears that it will be very helpful at home where I do not have the full > version of Acrobat. I do use the same person's CocoaBooklet for booklets, and that works great. Daiya |
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