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Anonymous
July 8, 2010
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copy selection from one pdf to another pdf

  • July 8, 2010
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Who knows how I can copy a selection from one pdf (including pictures and text) into another pdf?

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    Andrea25905493kd02
    New Participant
    September 1, 2022
    1. Have both PDFs open and place side by side on the same monitor or screen.
    2. Make a selection of what you want copied using the “selection tool”
    3. Then, right click on the selection you made and select “Take a snapshot” (Do not select “Take a snapshot” under the Edit dropdown menu
    4. Click on the other pdf you want to transfer your selecton to and press “ctrl +V”
    5. Place the selected new image wherever you need in the page of other PDF.

    Hope that helps!

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      wychegnome
      New Participant
      July 8, 2010

      The method I use is to open the document containing the pages I want to copy and extract the relevant pages to a new docuent. Save and close the new document.

      Now open the document you want to copy the pages into and insert the pages in the position you want them placed.

      Not as straight forward a simple copy and paste - but Adobe has failed to provide the simple system that works in vitually every other piece of software.

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      Anonymous
      July 8, 2010

      Thanks but this is not exactly what I am looking for. What I'd like to do is select part of a page in pdf document A ( images and text) and copy that into pdf document B. So not copy the entire page, but only part of it, and the part becomes part of the page in document B. With the snapshot tool, this works when copying (CTRL-V) into other files, even into e-mail; but not when copying into a pdf file ... which would seem to be a pretty basic step. Would you know how to do this?

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      Anonymous
      July 10, 2010

      after copying part of a PDF using the snapshot tool from one PDF, it's still possible to paste this selection into a different pdf.

      Just be aware that when you paste this selection it's pasted as a stamp.

      So instead of Ctrl-v, do the following:

      Go to: Comments:Comments and Markup tools>stamps>paste clipboard image as stamp


      Thanks. I tried this. Does not work. With 'paste clipboard image as stamp', the area copied with the snapshot tool is A) not copied entirely plus B) pasted in significantly reduced quality. The result is ridiculous.

      I really don't understand why this totally basic copy-paste action is not possible with such an expensive package as Adobe Professional 9. Adobe is losing me as a customer.

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