Insert screenshots

[SteveDBIMe]

I'm doing a bunch of screenshots using the windows 11 screenshot tool.

I'm then taking those screenshots, saving them as png files, and then inserting them into adobe acrobat pdf files (I have acrobat pro).

Is there a way to insert the images directly from the screenshot tool into acrobat without first saving the images as files?

[ls_rbls · Accepted solution]

Hi @SteveDBIMe ,

If you are using a screenshot tool to edit and save the image files to a folder, then you are already involving more than a 3-steps method.

Using that method not only involves additional manual steps in order to upload (or embedd ) those .png files onto a PDF document that is being viewed and edited with Adobe Acrobat.

However, on Windows you can still use the keyboard sequence of "CTRL" + "Prt Sc" to capture a desired screenshot of whatever you are displaying on your desktop computer. On the document that is viewed in Acrobat, open the "Edit PDF" tool, and just paste the copied screenshot onto the PDF using the old-school  "CTRL + V" keyboard shortcut.

The "Edit PDF" tool allows you to also crop, resize and move around an image on a PDF document.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

the easiest way is to press windows + shift and then "S".

[ls_rbls · Accepted solution]

Hi @SteveDBIMe ,

If you are using a screenshot tool to edit and save the image files to a folder, then you are already involving more than a 3-steps method.

Using that method not only involves additional manual steps in order to upload (or embedd ) those .png files onto a PDF document that is being viewed and edited with Adobe Acrobat.

However, on Windows you can still use the keyboard sequence of "CTRL" + "Prt Sc" to capture a desired screenshot of whatever you are displaying on your desktop computer. On the document that is viewed in Acrobat, open the "Edit PDF" tool, and just paste the copied screenshot onto the PDF using the old-school  "CTRL + V" keyboard shortcut.

The "Edit PDF" tool allows you to also crop, resize and move around an image on a PDF document.

[try67]

Under the Create PDF menu (or whatever it's called now) there's an option to create a new PDF from the contents of the clipboard. You can use that to skip the step of saving the screenshots as image files first. But each time you use it it will create a new PDF file. You will still need to merge those files at the end to get a single file with all the pages.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

the easiest way is to press windows + shift and then "S".

[ameilyiua87 · Accepted solution]

Hello Dear,

Yes! In Windows 11, after taking a screenshot with the Snipping Tool, click the Copy button. Then, in Adobe Acrobat Pro, open your PDF, press Ctrl + V to paste the image directly into the document without saving it as a file.