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2010-02-28 04:19:16
emilkamadrid
Registered: Feb 28 2010
Posts: 7
Answered

Hello to everybody,

I´m using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 professional and while I can manage some of its more advanced functions, I am embarrassed to admit I cannot do one simple thing: cur or, to be more precise, erase a fragment/part of a document. I´ve tried everything and... nothing seems to work.

Just to make myself clear: I use pdf documents in teaching. So, there are some fragments (for example, a picture, a table or a text segment) I don´t want to include. It´s very easy to do it with jpg or other similar files, because you select the area you want to eliminate and you simply ´´cut´´ it, but in case of pdf... I admit I´m at a loss.

I´d be very, very grateful for any help!
Thanks in advance and warm greetings from sunny Madrid
Emilia

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2010-02-28 05:11:11
#1
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Emilia,

The Crop tool may provide what you want.
It is on the Advanced Editing toolbar.

Should you upgrade to Acrobat 8 or 9 Professional you could use the Redaction tool.

Be well...

Be well...

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2010-02-28 05:35:17
#2
emilkamadrid
Registered: Feb 28 2010
Posts: 7
Thank you for your quick response!

Yes, know this tool but the problem is it creates a new page with the ´´cropped´´ element and erases the rest. What I need is to erase some elements of a page and leave the rest untouched.

The effect I want can be obtained with the ´´touch up object´´ tool, but it always selects the whole page (and then I can use, otherwise unavailable, the ´´cut´´ option) and I don´t know how to select only a small area (when I use ´´select object´´ tool, it does not select anything). I feel I am close to resolving my problem but I somehow miss one piece of this puzzle...


I hope I´ve made myself clear!

Again, I´d really appreciate if you could give me some further clues!
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2010-02-28 06:31:30
#3
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
It sounds like your page is made of a single image (probably a scan). If that's the case, you need to edit it in an image editing application, like Photoshop.

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2010-02-28 08:31:38
#4
emilkamadrid
Registered: Feb 28 2010
Posts: 7
Yes, I normally work with scans. Thank you, you´ve actually saved my Sunday :-) Now at least I know what´s the problem and that it cannot be fixed by Adobe Acrobat
Best wishes,
Emilia
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2010-02-28 09:53:49
#5
emilkamadrid
Registered: Feb 28 2010
Posts: 7
Hello again, just to finish the suject off and to leave a message for those will have the same question: indeed, in Adobe Prof 9 you can erase fragments of texts/pictures, even in scans, using the ´´redaction tool´´ - nice trick, Daka630, THANKS A LOT!
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2010-03-02 01:59:11
#6
TonyPotter
Registered: Feb 1 2010
Posts: 85
Hi, if you need to remove some elements, such as images, from your PDF,you may need PDF editor. It can directly deal the work well. Sounds that you use PDF for teaching every day. So, though the price of Adobe Acrobat is very expensive, it worth for you. And if you want to get a free way. You can convert PDF to Word, after editing, convert it back, using PDF to Word Converter and Cute PDF. It is a free solution but relatively a indirect method.
Free Resource:
PDF to Word Converter: http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.php#201
Cute PDF Writer: http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp

I will try my best to help you in PDF converison fields, objectively and Neutral.

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