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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?

    Correct answer Andrea25905493kd02
    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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    Andrea25905493kd02Correct answer
    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!

      Divine_idealist5E08
      Divine_idealist5E08
      Participant
      January 30, 2026

      This worked for us Thank You. knew it had to be a simple fix but how. Thanks Again

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      wychegnome
      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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      SimonATSCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      July 9, 2010

      Then you need to use the object touchup tool (or the other object tool -- never remember which one). You should be aware that massive editing of a PDF such as implied by your post is very problematic. Acrobat is not really an editor, but with some effort you can usually get what you want -- maybe cussing the software a bit along the way, though it is not something that the software ever promised.


      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

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