RE: Does anyone know why...

by Robyn Prentice <rjp(at)clickdms.com>

 Date:  Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:45:17 +0100
 To:  "'Randy Lewis'" <randy(at)kapaa.com>,
Robyn Prentice <rjp(at)clickdms.com>
 Cc:  hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
  todo: View Thread, Original
aparantly its not that good because of the character formatting etc...
also... its realy worth buying. im probably only goign to use it once. =
maybe
again. but that will be it. according to the company it wouldnt be =
money
spent wisley. maybe if i sacrafice some blood.... maybe they would buy
it....

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Lewis [mailto:randy(at)kapaa.com]
Sent: 30 August 2000 17:03
To: Robyn Prentice
Cc: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone know why...


Of course, you could just get the main Adobe Acrobat program--I don't
think it is terribly expensive...
~~~Randy

Robyn Prentice wrote:
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> hello. im converting a PDF into a MSword DOC file. but its time =
consuming
> because copy and paste doesnt copy and paste. it 'sort of copies it =
all'
and
> 'paste'. anyway.... ive used adobe photoshop to convert the PDF into =
a
> series of PSD files rather than do a screen capture of each page =
etc...
and
> loose quality. a screen capture will capture it at 72dpi and using
> photoshops convertion it creates the files at 300dpi. which is what i =
need
> it at for printing.
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> the questions i have are....
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> 1) why doesnt copy and paste actualy copy? it misses out . and , and =
=A3
> etc...
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> 2) why doesnt photoshop5 convert the PDF into colour? it is colour, =
but
ive
> chosen RGB, CMYK for the conversion and it doesnt work. the pallet is
> colour, but the actual image has no colour.
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> 3) when i save the file as a jpg to be inserted into the MSword =
document
it
> goes fine. until i import the image. i go to insert>picture>from file =
and
> the image is tiney. but, i open the same image in foreworks3 and =
resave
it,
> and then insert it into MSword, the image fits perfectly where i want =
it
on
> the page. its the right size.
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> im using PS5, fireworks3, MSword2000 on windows platform, and =
acrobat4
> (4.05b... if it matters).
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> i dont understand what its doing.
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> id apreaciate any ideas or answers.
> thankyou.
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>  Rob

--=20
 ~~~  Randy Lewis  3^) =20
Kapa`a, Kaua`i, Hawai`i
 http://www.kapaa.com

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