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Selecting images

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2007-01-20 15:01:52
rich
Registered: Jan 7 2007
Posts: 23

Hello,
 
In older versions of Adobe there was a tool that allowed me to be able to drag across a body of text, select it, copy it to the clipboard, then paste it as an image. I see in Version 8 that you can still copy and paste text, but only as text, and not an image like I used.
 
For instance, if I want to copy a table with numbers in it, I can't copy an image of it, just the text.
 
Is this feature still possible? And if not, why was it discontinued?
 
Thank you.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-01-26 19:22:49
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tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
I don't recall any means for pasting text as an image from text copied in Acrobat. You can select text with the Select tool, the TouchUp Text tool, or the TouchUp Object tool and copy the text, but it's all copied as text in Acrobat 8 and earlier viewers.

To paste copied areas as an image you can use the Snapshot tool. Set the preferneces to copy with the Snapshot tool to a higher resolution and drag the tool across your tables. You can then use Convert to PDF > From Clipboard to conver the copied table as an object. Likewise, you can take a screen shot of the table and use Conver to PDF > From Clipboard. Once saved as PDF you can open the PDF in an image editor.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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