How to post a piece of a pdf

[johnsironsanctuary]

I just figured out how to post a hunk of a pdf on the forum. Yippee!
1. Open the pdf.
2. Left click and drag out the selection.
3. Right click and copy the selection.
4. Paste on a WORD document. (In my case, OPEN OFFICE)
5. Right click and copy the WORD selection.
6. Paste in PAINT.
7. Save as a jpg to you photo file.
8. Browse your photo file from NEW TOPIC ATTACHMENTS.

If anyone knows a shortcut, I'm interested.

[fflintstone]

If you have standard adobe and not just "adobe reader" you can make an individual .PDF of any page of a multipage document.


Or you should be able to skip the word document by just opening the PDF on your screen and zoom to what you need. Then hit the print screen button on your keyboard. (Top right between f12 and scroll lock)

Open paint, hit paste.(top left) Crop if necessary. Save as a .JPG…… DONE.

[HeelSpur]

Whats a PDF?

[mikeswrenches]

John, Why not just copy and paste your partial PDF into to the message body itself.  It would save you a lot of screwing around.  I did it with a Bornstein wrench patent, below.

To all whom it may concern.
Be it known that I, HENRY BORNSTEIN, a
citizen of the United States, and a resident of
Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of
Massachusetts, have invented new and use
ful Improvements in Pipe and Nut Wrenches,
of which the following, taken in connection
with the accompanying drawings, is a‘speci
?cation

Mike

[mikeswrenches]

Whats a PDF?

  It stands for Portable Document Format.

Mike

[johnsironsanctuary]

Thanks to both Mike and f.  You saved a lot of wear and tear on my mouse.

Heelspur, there are many, many free tool catalog pdf downloads at :

http://www.roseantiquetools.com/id116.html.

[mikeswrenches]

HeelSpur, I should have been a little more informative in my answer.

In order to read a PDF file you will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.  This is free and will then let you open and ready the many PDF files that are out there.  For instance if you look up a patent on DATAMP, you have the option to look at the full patent on google patents.  Once you get to Google, The patents are readable, or downloadable(your choice) in PDF format.  This is why you need Reader.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[rusty]

There are 2 different things going on with pdf's. some have trext in them, and you can just cut/paste the text, so you can paste to the forum, or notepad, or ms word easily.

The others, the ones that are scans of catalogs, and have not been through OCR, are just pictures, you can't quite as easily cut/paste them like text, but you can nevertheless cut and paste them. In reader cut as a rectangle after zooming in where you want , (you have to cut only at a picture when there are pictures and text mixed on some pdf's , don't ask why, it's wicked evil and messy computer magic ;P)

You can then paste directly into irfanview and save as jpg afterwards, don't need word/paint etc...