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Paste Clipboard Image Function - Acrobat 8.0 Standard

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2007-11-08 10:01:58
ltrainor
Registered: Nov 8 2007
Posts: 4

I work at a small public accounting firm and we save our supporting tax documents in PDF format. We primarily use the advanced commenting functions to mark up our workpapers. In Acrobat 6.0 Standard, there was a 'paste clipboard image' function that allowed us to paste summaries created in Excel to the PDF document. The function allowed the user to select the size and location of the object to be pasted by providing crosshairs that could be manipulated with the mouse. In Acrobat 8.0 Standard, I have been unable to locate the same function. We've found a 'paste stamp' function, but it does not work in the same manner. Is the 'paste clipboard image' function available in Acrobat 8.0 with the same functionality as 6.0? If so, please let me know where I can find it. Thanks!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8, Windows
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2007-11-09 13:48:39
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tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
The Paste Clipboard Image on the Advanced Commenting tool in Acrobat 6 is used to paste data from the clipboard as a Stamp comment. But only data copied from a PDF file can be pasted with this tool.

You have the exact same feature in later versions of Acrobat and it's even much better. In addition to pasting data copied from a PDF, you can paste virtually any data on the clipboard copied from any application.

Rather than use a tool, just press Command/CTRL + V to paste any data from the clipboard to the document page. This also works in Adobe Reader when files are enabled with Reader usage rights for commenting.

Like Acrobat 6, pasting data from the clipboard pastes the data as a stamp comment.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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2008-01-10 08:59:31
#2
ltrainor
Registered: Nov 8 2007
Posts: 4
We are strictly concerned with pasting FROM Excel to Adobe Acrobat. We have used the 'paste clipboard image' function in Acrobat 6.0 and would like to continue doing so in Acrobat 8.0, rather than using the stamp function. Please advise if this is possible.
Thank you, Lisa
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2008-11-28 12:28:00
#3
robhrobh
Registered: Nov 26 2008
Posts: 8
I am having the same problem in Acrobat 9. i can paste an image but it pastes in so large that I cannot get handles to resize it?
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2008-11-28 14:35:14
#4
robhrobh
Registered: Nov 26 2008
Posts: 8
After I Upgraded my Acrobat 6.0 to 9.0 I also was also began getting this
Error Message

"Microsoft Visual Basic
Compile error in hidden module: DistMon"

This appears at start up and exit from Excel. I went to http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=278171 and found this solution to my Excel problem:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc307c7

which then allowed me to use the "Paste Clipboard Image as Stamp Tool" however I have to resize each time I paste from Excel clip to a smaller size, but at least it know works (just clumsily).
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2009-03-31 11:42:04
#5
SAIbari
Registered: Mar 31 2009
Posts: 2
robhrobh, I had the same problem--the image would paste so large I couldn't access the handles. To solve this, I changed the zoom. My image was so large, I had to go to 10%. Then I used the handles to shrink the image and changed the zoom back to 100%. HOWEVER...

I'm having a VERY frustrating problem in that while I successfully copied and pasted an image as described above and saved the resulting doc under a new filename, when I opened the original and tried the same technique again with different images, it's not working consistently. It simply does nothing when I try to paste... even when I use the stamp tool. After several tries it finally worked with one image, but I need to do a second and it's just not working. Aaaaargh! Can anyone help?
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2009-03-31 16:45:21
#6
robhrobh
Registered: Nov 26 2008
Posts: 8
The best way I have found to date for pasting from Excel is by selecting the 'Paste Clipboard Image as Stamp Tool' and instead of using 'Control V' or paste I utilize the stamp icon that appears and left click, hold and drag a window where I wish the to place the image. It may take a few seconds then the image appears where I sized the window. Hope this helps.
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2009-04-01 08:45:14
#7
SAIbari
Registered: Mar 31 2009
Posts: 2
Thanks robhrobh, however I did try the stamp tool and it didn't work either. I finally (after over 1.5 hrs) did get both pics pasted into the document. But it was a matter of repeatedly closing and re-opening the document and trying again, until it finally worked for one and then the next picture. Ridiculous! I still have no idea why it works sometimes and not others! ...

Although... maybe I didn't hold and drag when I used the stamp tool. I may have just clicked--which should've worked anyway, but it sounds like by holding and dragging you can control the size of what you paste (without having to shrink the view in order to reach the handles of very large images)-- a nice alternative, if only it would work consistently!
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2009-04-01 12:25:17
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robhrobh
Registered: Nov 26 2008
Posts: 8
SAIbari as you mentioned the dragging and sizing the window for the stamp tool seems to be the key. Is awkward for sure, but at least I found that it worked for me. It seems like cutting and pasting worked much better in Adobe 6. The price of progress.
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