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I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.

I have tried a couple of tools to convert the PDF into a word document, but all
I get is a mischmash of varios drawing items scattered around in a way that I am
not able to resize etc.

Ideally I want to just copy the page from the PDF as a vector object and paste
into word as something I can float with text around it.

Any ideas?

Richard said the following on 29/04/2005 11:23 p.m.:
> I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.
>
> I have tried a couple of tools to convert the PDF into a word document,
> but all I get is a mischmash of varios drawing items scattered around in
> a way that I am not able to resize etc.
>
> Ideally I want to just copy the page from the PDF as a vector object and
> paste into word as something I can float with text around it.
>
> Any ideas?
While possibly not much help to you what I do is read the
PDF into Photoshop and then output it to JPG. It creates a
non editable image but it goes into word nicely.

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Collector»NZ wrote:
> Richard said the following on 29/04/2005 11:23 p.m.:
>
>> I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.
>>
>> I have tried a couple of tools to convert the PDF into a word
>> document, but all I get is a mischmash of varios drawing items
>> scattered around in a way that I am not able to resize etc.
>>
>> Ideally I want to just copy the page from the PDF as a vector object
>> and paste into word as something I can float with text around it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> While possibly not much help to you what I do is read the PDF into
> Photoshop and then output it to JPG. It creates a non editable image but
> it goes into word nicely.
>
If you dont have photoshop, ghostscript will convert pdf to postscript which may
be more useful.

Richard wrote:
> I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.
>
> I have tried a couple of tools to convert the PDF into a word document,
> but all I get is a mischmash of varios drawing items scattered around in
> a way that I am not able to resize etc.
>
> Ideally I want to just copy the page from the PDF as a vector object and
> paste into word as something I can float with text around it.
>
> Any ideas?
pdf2ps which is part of the Ghostscript suite will convert PDF to postscript and
from there you can get it into a CAD package or into Graphicsmagick

Roger_Nickel wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>
>> I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.
>>
>> I have tried a couple of tools to convert the PDF into a word
>> document, but all I get is a mischmash of varios drawing items
>> scattered around in a way that I am not able to resize etc.
>>
>> Ideally I want to just copy the page from the PDF as a vector object
>> and paste into word as something I can float with text around it.
>>
http://www.pdftoall.com/

Rob

Collector»NZ wrote:

> While possibly not much help to you what I do is read the PDF into
> Photoshop and then output it to JPG. It creates a non editable image but
> it goes into word nicely.

Unfortunatly thats going to be as bad as the screenshot method - perhaps a
little better as I will be able to do it at higher res.

It seems the gradieants all print out of whack when doing it as an image in word.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:23:41 +1200, Richard wrote:

> I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.

FFS, the P in PDf does not mean this.

Every heard of cows? as Goldestien has often asked on the TV air waves.

STF, a PDF is a stand alone document which one may attach to ones own
document if the desire should so arrive.

Appendix (Warning FLW)

FFS stands for For ****s Sake
STF stands for **** The ****
PDF Portable document file
FLW Four letter word(s)

Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:23:41 +1200, Richard wrote:
>
>
>>I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.
>
>
> FFS, the P in PDf does not mean this.
>
> Every heard of cows? as Goldestien has often asked on the TV air waves.
>
> STF, a PDF is a stand alone document which one may attach to ones own
> document if the desire should so arrive.
>
> Appendix (Warning FLW)
>
> FFS stands for For ****s Sake
> STF stands for **** The ****
> PDF Portable document file
> FLW Four letter word(s)

I would have to ask that you try again in english this time.

"Richard" <> wrote in message
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>I need to put a page of a PDF into a word 2003 docco.
>
> I have tried a couple of tools to convert the PDF into a word
> document, but all I get is a mischmash of varios drawing items
> scattered around in a way that I am not able to resize etc.
>
> Ideally I want to just copy the page from the PDF as a vector object
> and paste into word as something I can float with text around it.
>
> Any ideas?

The full version of Acrobat handles this kind of thing expertly, as
you'd expect -- extracting a page and saving it to practically any
format you want (editable text or image). So if it's a one-off project
you're working on, and it's improtant, you might want to consider
taking it to a printer/copy shop that has Acrobat (or Omnipage Pro,
versions 12-14) -- should be pretty common -- and pay the $10 or so to
get it done right.

Impossible wrote:

> The full version of Acrobat handles this kind of thing expertly, as
> you'd expect -- extracting a page and saving it to practically any
> format you want (editable text or image). So if it's a one-off project
> you're working on, and it's improtant, you might want to consider
> taking it to a printer/copy shop that has Acrobat (or Omnipage Pro,
> versions 12-14) -- should be pretty common -- and pay the $10 or so to
> get it done right.

A friend has acrobat 7 pro, I have tried the following.

I can export a page from the pdf to a single page pdf, and then copy and paste
special that as an acrobat object, and doubleclicking on the pasted item opens
acrobat so I can edit the page, but both onscreen and when printing it, its a
bitmap so all the small fonts are illedgable.

Doing it thru the pdf2word things, its readable but the layout is trashed.