Cut and Paste Facility

From the menu bar, click Tools, Select & Zoom, click the Snapshot tool.Select the object you want to copy in the PDF doc & paste it into the destination document.

How to cut and paste a part of a pdf document in acrobat Pro?

Hello. I'm new to Acrobat Pro (9). I want to drag-select, copy part of a pdf and then paste the clipboard onto another page in the same document. I've figured out that I can do this with the Stamp Tool (Tools/Comment and Markup/Paste Clipboard Image as Stamp Tool) but then I have to resize it to its original size.

Is there any other way to simply copy and paste in Acrobat Pro?

This is from a PDF created "From Scanner" and is hand-scribbled music . . . so non-text, not OCR, etc.

I have a simple shareware program called PDFPen with which I am able to do this . . . but the program is a bit unstable. It's difficult to believe that a $500 program which 'can do anything' can't perform this simplest of operations.

It's a two step operation to do this. First, use the Snapshot tool (Tools > Select & Zoom > Snapshot Tool) to copy the area you want to the clipboard. Then select Create PDF From Clipboard from under the File menu. In the new PDF use the TouchUp Object tool to select and copy the image. Now you can paste this image anywhere in the original PDF.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

So the process is:
1 - activate Snapshot Tool (or use Select Tool and Copy)
2 - drag-select the object to copy
3 - choose File/Create new PDF from Clipboard
4 - activate Touchup Object Tool
5 - click the object and Copy
6 - go back to original document
7 - activate Touchup Object Tool in original document
8- click, Paste
9 - resize the object if necessary (I just tried the procedure you recommend and when I pasted back to the original doc, the object came in at about 400%).

Again, thanks for your help and I don't mean to sound overly disgruntled, but Adobe is suggesting that I create a separate PDF for every image I want to copy (which in the current document I'm editing would be about 75 - 100 pdfs) and go back and forth using different tools . . . and this program costs $500?

PDFPen ($36 on Amazon) does the copy/paste in two operations: drag-select/copy; then click/paste, all using the same tool. What takes about 30 seconds in Acrobat Pro takes 5 seconds in PDFPen.
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After reading online forum threads, I learned that this simple copy-paste procedure was possible in Acrobat Pro 8 or earlier . . . is this true? Perhaps, then, I can find a copy of the earlier version . . . do you know where?

Would you please submit this simple copy-paste procedure (using one tool) to the Acrobat development team as a request for future updates?

Thanks very much. Please forgive my annoyance, it's certainly not directed at you or anyone on this forum.

Hi CRoze444,

PDF is a finished file format, not really an editing tool. Yes, over the years more and more has been added to Acrobat to let you do some editing to files, but mostly just touch up type jobs, not full editing. Edit jobs in Acrobat are a bit cumbersome because it was never intended to be used that way.

The major advantage of a PDF (portable document format) is that you can be assured that your file is seen the same way (high fidelity) by anyone viewing it regardless of platform. Plus since the Adobe Reader is free and virtually everyone has it on their system you don't have to worry about version compatibility of other files types, i.e., someone having an older version of Word that can't view your file created with a newer version of Word.

For any major editing jobs it is always recommended to do that in a program with full editing capability then convert to PDF as a final step.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Dimitri, thanks very much for your reply. Do you happen to know if the copy-paste procedure was possible in previous versions of Acrobat? After looking at a few threads, I got the feeling that it was possible in version 8 but was removed in version 9.

Knowing now that Acrobat is not a full-editing software for pdf files, it does still seem rather odd that the user is able to drag-select and copy (using either the Select tool or the Snapshot tool) and can then paste the clipboard image (using the Stamp tool or Create PDF from Clipboard and then copy paste using Touchup Object) but yet a direct copy and paste using one tool is not possible. The user can copy an image to the clipboard and then paste that clipboard image . . . but not with the same tool. It's as if in order to carry a book from one room to another, I have to pick it up with my gloved right hand, take it outside of the house, then with my left hand - after first removing the glove - bring it back into the house and then to the other room.

Is there any way I can request a simple copy-paste procedure in future updates?

Thanks,

CRoze444

You need to use a bitmap editor. (Acrobat is not.) One option is an app called "imaging" that was bundled by MS with every version of WinOS prior to XP. the shortcut to launch Imaging was found in the Accessories group of miscel apps. imaging supports multipage tiff documents. imaging has cut/past and other editing tools. another option is to scan each page to photoshop (say, ps elements) and then edit (copy/paste snippits) from one image/file to any other. Save each finalized page to PDF. Then combine the pages to a multipage PDF in Acrobat. It takes time to learn the tricks.

Hi CRoze44,
fwiw

Acrobat 8 Professional or 8 3D -
Edit > Preferences > select Category "TouchUp"
In the Image Editor pane, click the "Choose Image Editor..." button.
In the Page/Object Editor, click the "Choose Page/Object Editor..." button.

Acrobat 9 Professional or Pro Extended -
Perform the same steps.

In a PDF, by selecting (with the appropriate tool), an image or page/object one can evocate the selected editor.
Perform desired edits and return the edited output to the PDF.

Be well....

the bitmap editor works perfectly....I had to do that before

The cut & paste option is easier if you follow these steps;1) Select and copy the area you want to paste into the PDF document. This can be from either the current PDF document, or any other document (Word, etc.).

2) On the PDF document, go to the Tools menu under Comment & Markup and choose the Text Box Tool.3) Click and drag the text box to the size you desire.

4) Double click inside the text box, then on the Edit menu choose Paste (if you don't see Paste, then make certain you are using the Select Tool under Select & Zoom on the Tools menu.).5) You can resize the text box and move it to any location on the PDF document for placement.

6) Be certain to indicate Documents and Markups under the Comments and Forms section when you print your document to ensure these changes are printed.

thanks for help balesaps

bitmap can help your work I think. Of course I think Acrbat 8 can work well also. Check the way they provide and you will find it is easy to resolve. I now use Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.0

I don't know about cut but you can copy text from PDF file and paste it in to other file . To do this just choose select tool at upper side menu and it gives you cursor so you easily choose that thing and paste it to another doc.

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Hi CRoze444,

I have been using Acrobat 8.0 at my previous work and now at my new job I have purchased the new and expensive 9.0 version.

One of the features that I used on a regular basis was the cutting and pasting option and I can't figure out a simple way to do anymore. It used to be as simple as copying and pasting and now that option no longer works.

Were you able to find any way to do this yet?

If not, Adobe should be notified that this was a very useful function.

From the menu bar, click Tools, Select & Zoom, click the Snapshot tool.Select the object you want to copy, copy it it clipboard & you can paste the copied portion using the "paste clipboard image as stamp tool" from Tools menu from comments & markup option.