How do I copy and paste diagrams from pdfs nowadays?

cepheus

I used to be able to use a scroll tool to select diagrams on pdf documents, which can then be pasted into documents. For some reason the latest version of acrobat doesn't seem to offer this facility unless there is a trick I have missed. Is there any alternative?

MoneySavingUser

press print screen button on keyboard

open up microsoft paint - press paste - crop the part you need and copy/paste into word etc.

InsideInsurance

You still can copy and paste from PDFs but it will depend on 2 factors:

1) Security/ Privacy settings in the PDF
2) How the PDF was created

When creating a PDF "properly" you can disable such things as copying. Likewise some basic tools for creating PDFs create each page as an image rather than as encoding each object properly as text, images etc thus you cannot select individual elements as there arent any.

samdd

InsideInsurance wrote: »

You still can copy and paste from PDFs but it will depend on 2 factors:

1) Security/ Privacy settings in the PDF
2) How the PDF was created

When creating a PDF "properly" you can disable such things as copying. Likewise some basic tools for creating PDFs create each page as an image rather than as encoding each object properly as text, images etc thus you cannot select individual elements as there arent any.

Sometimes you'll find using the right click copy doesn't work on some PDF's but, its always worth highlighting the txt then try the Ctrl C method = i have found more often than not it will copy to clipboard - then Ctrl V into your doc.

E2A. Reply should have been without quote and is not a specific reply.

cepheus

Thanks I will have a go at some of these. However have Adobe deliberately removed the select 'tool' in later versions of acrobat, and could this still be used in earlier versions with present documents?

WhiteChristmas

It's customary for someone around now to say, "Acrobat? Get rid of that resource-hogging piece of junk and download Foxit!"

Which is, it has to be said, mighty fine advice.

If you're on Vista or W7, the snipping tool is far more versatile than the old screen-print-into-Paint routine.

spud17

WhiteChristmas wrote: »

It's customary for someone around now to say, "Acrobat? Get rid of that resource-hogging piece of junk and download Foxit!"

Which is, it has to be said, mighty fine advice.

If you're on Vista or W7, the snipping tool is far more versatile than the old screen-print-into-Paint routine.

The FREE version of PDF-XChange has more functions than the free Foxit and last time I installed it, didn't try and install a dodgy toolbar.

Toxteth_OGrady

http://www.pdfescape.com/what/

cepheus

spud17 wrote: »

The FREE version of PDF-XChange has more functions than the free Foxit and last time I installed it, didn't try and install a dodgy toolbar.

I have just downloaded PDF-Xchange, looks OK.

Evidently Adobe Acrobat version 7 and earlier did have copy and paste functions which I often used to use on my other computer. Of course, these are not compatible with Windows 7. Adobe made sure you needed to pay for the copy and paste versions of Acrobat after that!

What a rip off, why didn't everyone not riot?