PDF files

[uzj100]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Is it possible to "convert" (or copy and then paste) a PDF file into a word document? I was trying to do this yesterday and only the first page of an 11 page PDF document "copied" into the Word document I was working with. And it seemed to be a picture. I wanted to transfer and insert all 11 pages. I didn't seem to have any lucky pasting the other pages into the Word document, even as a picture.

thanks in advance

 

[Phillip Jones]

There is or was a feature in I believe in Acrobat that allow you to
convert to a RTF Document.

If you have acrobat or some such utility that could do that. you could
save the file as a DOCX document and then insert it into your document.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Is it possible to "convert" (or copy and then paste) a PDF file into a word document? I was trying to do this yesterday and only the first page of an 11 page PDF document "copied" into the Word document I was working with. And it seemed to be a picture. I wanted to transfer and insert all 11 pages. I didn't seem to have any lucky pasting the other pages into the Word document, even as a picture.

thanks in advance

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[Michel Bintener]

Unless you happen to own a pretty decent OCR software, this is going to be a
difficult task. If you only want to use the text, open the PDF in Adobe
Reader and choose File>Save as Text. This creates a text file of the PDF
document which you can then open in Word.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Is it possible to "convert" (or copy and then paste) a PDF file into a word
document? I was trying to do this yesterday and only the first page of an 11
page PDF document "copied" into the Word document I was working with. And it
seemed to be a picture. I wanted to transfer and insert all 11 pages. I didn't
seem to have any lucky pasting the other pages into the Word document, even as
a picture.

thanks in advance

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[Barry Wainwright]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Is it possible to "convert" (or copy and then paste) a PDF file into a word
document? I was trying to do this yesterday and only the first page of an 11
page PDF document "copied" into the Word document I was working with. And it
seemed to be a picture. I wanted to transfer and insert all 11 pages. I
didn't seem to have any lucky pasting the other pages into the Word document,
even as a picture.

thanks in advance

PDFs are graphic documents.

You can use the shareware programme "GraphicConverter" to convert the
PDF to a series of different graphic files. If you want to turn it into
editable text, you will have to buy the full blown Adobe Acrobat package
- even then, the editable text you will get will be laid out nothing
like the original document used to create the pdf.

 

[Phillip Jones]

Actually there are two forms of PDF's: graphics which are not editable
at all. And a Text format that only can be edited in Acrobat or some
type of program That can edit PDF.

In Acrobat 7, much better in 8 and perhaps even better in 9 (Although I
don't own nor can I at this time afford it) convert PDF's to word
Format. But you have to have Acrobat to allow you to save a s a word
document.

once you save the document open both and which ever is easier copy and
paste to one or the other then save the combined document as something else

PDFs are graphic documents.

You can use the shareware programme "GraphicConverter" to convert the
PDF to a series of different graphic files. If you want to turn it into
editable text, you will have to buy the full blown Adobe Acrobat package
- even then, the editable text you will get will be laid out nothing
like the original document used to create the pdf.

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<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm>

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[Daiya Mitchell]

PDFs are graphic documents.

You can use the shareware programme "GraphicConverter" to convert the
PDF to a series of different graphic files.\

Improvement in 2008! Word will do this for you. Word will only ever
let you insert a single-page image, period. However, in Word 2008, if
you use Insert | Picture | From File, and select a multi-page PDF, Word
will offer a preview window. In the Preview window, you can select which
page to insert, and you can repeat this until you have inserted each
page as a separate image.

Now, it might wind up faster to use the Preview features in Leopard to
convert an 11-page PDF into 11 separate single page files and insert
each one, but this is a new feature I thought I would highlight, as the
question comes up periodically.

However, the original poster seemed to prefer the PDF converted into
text, which Word will not help with. So I guess that's just an FYI.