<p>I have to put together a program for an event. Last’s years organizer saved the entire program as a pdf and gave me a disk! Of course, I can’t edit that stuff. I am working on putting together the new program in Publisher. Is there a way to import pdf documents or use pdf ? The only way I can figure is cumbersome-print pdf, scan, save as tif or jpg and insert in Publisher. Is there an easier way?</p>
<p>can you copy and past from the pdf into publisher?</p>
<p>Maybe do screenshots from pdf and paste into publisher?</p>
<p>I’m not well versed in publisher…</p>
<p>Unfortunately you can’t copy and paste from the pdf…Publisher let’s you import word documents but I don’t have the documents in word. …anybody who is versed in publisher out there?</p>
<p>Well, if you have photoshop you should be able to open it up there and save it in another file format (such as jpg) of your choosing. If you don’t have photoshop, there is the free, opensource alternative known as Gimp. You can find it at [GIMP</a> - The GNU Image Manipulation Program](<a href=“http://www.gimp.org/]GIMP”>http://www.gimp.org/). </p>
<p>Gimp may be a little overkill though, but maybe you can use it for other things in the future and if you have a broadband connection it shouldn’t be a problem to install it.</p>
<p>There’s also the quick and dirty way of using print screen, and pasting it into publisher. Crop out the pictures and copy the text in Acrobat reader and you have a nice, quick, dirty solution.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. :-)</p>
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<p>EDIT: If you want you can e-mail it to me and I can convert it to jpg, gif, or png (whichever you prefer). It’ll only take me a second, though, I probably won’t get to it untill Tuesday since I won’t even be by the computer untill then after today. My contact info is all on my site: codingbychris.com .</p>
<p>I won’t attack! I totally appreciate your help. I can use GIMP. It helps a lot…if my son wasn’t in college across the country I would make him do it. Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>I just downloaded gimp and in less than half an hour from reading the advice above was able to resolve the problem…import pdf into gimp, save as gif file, import gif as picture into publisher!
Chris: Thank you so much.</p>
<p>No problem, glad I could help. Also, you may be able to fine some other uses for gimp as it is a fairly powerful image editing program (Though, I personally prefer Photoshop).</p>
<p>I prefer my ancient version of photoshop, but my 15 yo says the gimp is much better! I think it’s all in what you are used to.</p>