inserting a .pdf file to a Word document?

[gweno]

Is it possible to do this? I've tried but it seems to keep putting
only the first page of the file in.

What I'm trying to do is put in a published article (by me) to the
appendix of my doctoral dissertation. I'd like to use the published
version (and I have permission to do so) because it includes
photographs, high quality, which my text version does not.

So, I scanned the article as a .pdf.

I suppose another option would be to do it page by page and jpeg by
jpeg but that seems very cumbersome.

I intend to send hard copies to my committee but ultimately it will
have to be uploaded electronically to the university's system so it
does need to exist within the document.

Help!

The pdf is 9 pages long.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Comments inline below.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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Is it possible to do this? I've tried but it seems to keep putting
only the first page of the file in.

Word has no concept of "pages", so you need to paste in a smaller-than-A4
(or US Letter, or whatever) PDF of a page (from the PDF file) that can be
pasted into on one of your Word pages without encroaching on your
header/footer + margins.

Do that for each page of the PDF file. Word will display each of these PDFs
on what will print out as successive pages.

You can easily select material from your open PDF by keying
Control-Command-Shift-4 and drawing the cross-hairs diagonally across the
area you want to reproduce. This puts a PDF of your selection on to the
Clipboard. Then click in the Word document (first key Command-e to
centre-align the paragraph) and key Command-v to paste the PDF into Word.

You may have to experiment with image sizes (%) of the original PDF to get
the best reproduction. Don't be guided by what you see on the screen --
print it out and check.

What I'm trying to do is put in a published article (by me) to the
appendix of my doctoral dissertation. I'd like to use the published
version (and I have permission to do so) because it includes
photographs, high quality, which my text version does not.

So, I scanned the article as a .pdf.

I suppose another option would be to do it page by page

Yes, that's my suggestion -- but you'll find the Control-Command-Shift-4
really speeds it up.

and jpeg by jpeg

Not necessary.

but that seems very cumbersome.

I intend to send hard copies to my committee but ultimately it will
have to be uploaded electronically to the university's system so it
does need to exist within the document.

For the hard copy, you would be better off doing a PDF of the Word document
and stitching it to the published article PDF -- especially if the quality
of the 2nd-generation PDF isn't at optimum.

Hang around; probably someone else will come by who has an answer far better
than mine!

CH
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[Elliott Roper]

Is it possible to do this? I've tried but it seems to keep putting
only the first page of the file in.

What I'm trying to do is put in a published article (by me) to the
appendix of my doctoral dissertation. I'd like to use the published
version (and I have permission to do so) because it includes
photographs, high quality, which my text version does not.

So, I scanned the article as a .pdf.

I suppose another option would be to do it page by page and jpeg by
jpeg but that seems very cumbersome.

I intend to send hard copies to my committee but ultimately it will
have to be uploaded electronically to the university's system so it
does need to exist within the document.

Help!

The pdf is 9 pages long.

I guess you want the reader to see published article exactly as it was
published. If so then including the article as page by page tiff or jpg
images inserted into the Word document as Clive suggested, is probably
the best way to keep it all together.

If you want the text of the article to be searchable, then your choices
are different, and you'd best be guided by your committee.

You could publish your whole dissertation as PDF, with the article's
text re-entered or OCR'd and the illustrations placed as nicely as your
PDF creator (which could be Word and Preview) will let you. You could
even go completely pony-tailed and re-set your dissertion in InDesign
or Quark, right down to the choice of font used by your article's
publisher. Your committee may be mumbling 'form before content' in
their beards as they mark your work, so do ask first.

You could do the same with the Word doc as the final product.

For nine lousy pages, I'd be taking the easy way. If searchability is
important, you could always include the text again, as an appendix to
the appendix.
;-)

 

[gweno]

Thanks so much... this actually worked out fine, and copying this way
allowed me to avoid the black edges where the scanner showed through.
I think this will probably be adequate both for the hard copy and the
uploaded version, since the article is only appearing in an appendix
anyway and therefore should not need to be searchable!