What kind of input does Acrobat require? I have the reader as most people
do.
Also .pdf files tend to be real large. I admit it is a cool way to
publish books and long articles.
Paul Lamar
Acrobat will accept almost anything - at work we dump word, excel,
powerpoint, Acad LT 2000, Acad 200, solidworks, etc into it with no
problems.
Once it's a PDF - anyone with the reader can view zoom print, etc.
I personally use a program called Pagis - not widely supported, but it
stores images in a segmented TIF so you get the text in B&W at 300 DPI and
the pictures as grey or color at 100 DPI, displays awesomely, does
intelligent image cleanup, and has a miniscule file size (smaller than PDF).
But, no one but me can read the files :(
Mike Harrington
I could be wrong on this but once a pict is in pdf you can not extract
it directly back to a gif or jpg from the viewer.
Perhaps I just don't know how to do that.
That would be a real handy thing for me to have. Course I am really stupid
when it comes to Windoze. Somebody said I could cut and paste to the
clip board and then save it as a jpg. How do I do that step by step?
Paul Lamar
They way **I** do it is to have whatever I want to capture up on the screen,
(and remember you are literally taking a snapshot of the screen) and then
hit the "Print Screen" key (directly above "insert" in the aux keypad between
the numeric pad and the QWERTY section on my current two keyboards.
This does a OS "copy" to the buffer. I then open LView16 (this may work
with many other image viewer/editors,too) and select "Edit" on the command
bar. "Paste" is the only command not greyed out so I select it. This is sort
of the tricky part, as what will APPEAR to happen is that LView dissappears.
What you are ACTUALLY seeing is a full screen IMAGE of the full screen when
you pushed "Print Screen" - this often looks just like the screen just
before you
opened LView, hence the possiblity of confusion. I then use the LView16
edit capabilities to crop out what I don't want (the rest of the screen) and
save the cropped screen capture as a jpg or whatever. YMMV.
Before you all tell me what an old stick in the mud I am for using LView16
when later versions are out there --- I also have LViewPro2001, but altho
it does a lot more, it is much more fussy to use, so I still use simple,
old, reliable
LView16 for the easy stuff like this.
Try it, you'll like it. Of course, you probably can't do this with Linus
SillySys
1.05 or BlueHat Not-Really Freeby 2.3 or whatever. This nice feature only
works with an evil, useless OS. ;-))
Bill Freeman
Long EZ builder & pilot
BSME, MSME
EAA Technical Counselor
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