Guest Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Calling all techies I'm trying to help my other half to make a powerpoint presentation and he needs to copy a map into it from a pdf file. I've tried selecting part of it, but it just gives select all as an option. I also thought of trying to save it as another type of file, but it doesn't seem to like that idea either. I'm sure there must be a magic solution, or is it just because it's been saved as read only? A little knowledge is such a dangerous thing! AOB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marion Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 You may find an icon that looks like a camera on the tool bar click this then you can put a box around the map and it will copy the map to clipboard to be pasted into your power point document. Hope this works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hi AOB If you select print screen on your keyboard you can then open the "paint" program and click "paste" to copy the whole picture. From here you can use the select tool to cut out the bit you want and copy it to your power point. NB this is really useful when pdf files are "protected" and won't let you use the camera select tool! (Watch out for copyright, though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Ive used marions method before ASPK, thanks for that, learn something new every day, I hadn't even noticed the 'print screen' button on my keyboard before Will have to find something to try it with later. Peggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Thank you, you are all wonderful. Saves so much head scratching! Oh lord, just remembered I need a new nit comb. school sent out a dictat just before half term that we all need to nit comb every day for the next two weeks. Not sure my comb's too effective! Hopefully it's just psychosomatic! AOB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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