Adobe 22020737 Acrobat X Pro Manual - Page 139

USING ACROBAT X PRO 133 Saving and exporting PDFs 2 Copy the text: • Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to another application. • Right-click on the selected text, and then select Copy. • Right-click on the selected text, and then choose Copy With Formatting. This command, which preserves the column layout, appears only if the document is tagged properly. You can paste copied text into comments and bookmarks as well as into documents authored in other applications. Convert selected content to other formats You convert selected content other formats by copying and pasting the content to a file. For example, you can select content and save it as a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, comma separated values. 1 For scanned documents, choose Tools > Recognize Text > In This File. This command converts the scanned images to text. The quality of your original scan affects how well you can copy and paste the text. 2 Click the Select tool . 3 Press Alt as you drag a rectangle over the rows and columns to copy. To select tables that exceed one page, try changing the page display to Single Page Continuous before selecting the tables. (View > Page Display > Enable Scrolling) 4 Right-click the selection, and choose Export Selection As and specify a file name. 5 Depending on the nature of the content, in the Save As Type, choose one of the following: Word Document or Word 97-2003 Saves the content as a Word file. Excel Workbook, XML Spreadsheet, or CSV Saves the content as a table. Rich Text Format or HTML Saves the content as a RTF or HTML file. To copy a table in RTF, drag the selected table into an open document in the target application. Copy images Use the Select tool to copy and paste individual images from a PDF to the clipboard, to another application, or to a file. If you cannot select an image because of overlapping text, open the Preferences dialog box, and under Categories, select General. Then select Make Select Tool Select Images Before Text. 1 Using the Select tool , do one of the following: • To select the entire image, click it or drag a rectangle around it. • To select a portion of an image, hold the pointer over the image until the cross hair icon appears, and then drag a rectangle around the portion. Note: To deselect an image and start over, click outside it. 2 Copy the image: • Choose Edit > Copy, and then choose Edit > Paste to paste the image in an open document in another application. • Right-click the image and choose an option to copy the image to the clipboard or to a new file. • Drag the image into an open document in another application. Last updated 10/11/2011