Posted by tribeofa | Posted in MS Word | Posted on 12-09-2009
You’ve done everything right – you’ve chosen “Insert” from the menu bar or the picture icon from a tool bar or pane, you’ve chosen “picture from file,” and you’ve said OK. A nice box appears but no picture! You try different formats, you try this, you try that. You print the picture out of another program and it’s fine! What gives?? What gives is that Word thinks your picture is behind some text, even if you have none. What can I tell you? Word is occasionally delusional.
Get to “Format Picture” by your preferred method – I right click on the picture.
Now choose “Layout” from the list of choices. In the Mac 2008 version it looks like this – yours may differ, but the same choices will be there:
Now click on “In front of text,” which shows the dog in front of the lines:
Your picture appears like a rabbit in freshly planted lettuce patch.
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in PDF | Posted on 28-08-2009
Large companies tend to be charry of handing out Acrobat Pro to just anyone, and you’re not one of the chosen. Or you work from home and can’t afford a copy…can you create a PDF? Yes! See item 6 in the Acrobat FAQ.
For more information about PDFs, check out the Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF Bible
at Amazon.
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in MS Word, PDF | Posted on 25-04-2009
Whatever software you want to use, that picture is in the wrong format. Word to the rescue!
If, for example, you just removed the pink highlights from the boss’ receipts in Photoshop so they wouldn’t appear blacked-out when you fax them with his expense reports (are you a star, or what?), but now you need to insert them into something that only accepts JPG (okay, I can’t come up with a reason why you would need to do that…just go with it), you can solve it with Word.
Insert your PDF into Word (Insert…Picture from file)
Right click and choose “Save as Picture…”
In the “Format” drop down box, choose “JPG”
Voilà!
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Adobe Acrobat, PDF | Posted on 30-03-2009
We tend to think of PDF files as carved in stone, but if you have Acrobat Pro, you have a chisel. It’s not always easy, but there are some tools for touching up text that often work quite well. Today was not one of those days for me.
I had a document that merely needed a change to the signature block. Piece of cake. Open it in Pro, use the the “Touch Up Text” tool and change it. Do you hear the gong? If the document has been created in a font that your system doesn’t have, you can’t edit the text. Nope. Not at all. No cheating, no tricks, not gonna happen. Deep breath: there’s a workaround.
See that little camera? It’s called the snapshot tool. Click on the camera, then drag around the whole document except the signature block. As soon as you let go, it’s on your clipboard. Paste it into Word and drag your margins out to the edges. You should now have the same page you saw in the PDF with room at the bottom. Add in your signature block and you’re finished. Have a footer? Do the same thing with the footer; just paste it after the signature block.
OK, it’s not perfect because – DUH! -you don’t have the font. It’s better than not having the document, though, and you can do the signature in a similar font and disguise it with italics or bold, or insert it in a harmonious font.
Another workaround: scan the document and follow the directions here to turn it into a Word document. Make your changes and, if you want, save it as a PDF.
And that was my day.
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Your executive asks you to print off that article on Golfing Underwater he saw on www.throwawaybigbucks.com. Piece of cake, right? You print from Explorer…and the right edge is cut off. Phooey.
You set your page to landscape. The right side is STILL cut off.
If you have Acrobat, so you try printing to PDF. No joy.
After you kick the printer a couple of times, you try to cut and paste the article into a Word doc. Either it’s protected and won’t let you, or you get all of the golf clubs and bubbles and Montblac ads on the page mixed into the article. You pick out the article sentence by sentence and paste it into a new doc, and print that.
Only 45 minutes later, and you’ve printed an article! You’re not embarrassed…much. Don’t let this happen to you!
Tell your IT department that it’s crucial for you to have Adobe Acrobat PRO, and that it needs to be set up so that you have its icon in Explorer. For reasons I don’t even want to contemplate, if you choose “convert web page to pdf” from this icon, it will create a perfect document, but if you choose File>Print and choose Adobe Acrobat as the printer it will make a PDF with a cut-off right edge. Obtain the icon, even if you have to bite ankles to do it.
UPDATE: MS Explorer 2007 claims to have solved this problem, so that’s another solution.
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