Copy and paste from Adobe to Word

31-05-2009, 06:10

Hi there, I need to copy and paste a document from Adobe to Word, when I paste it the document is coming up with all squares and dots.

Any ideas on how to sort this.

AndyCambs · 31-05-2009, 06:28

You need to have Adobe writer installed, then you can save as a word document.

31-05-2009, 06:41

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Originally Posted by AndyCambs

You need to have Adobe writer installed, then you can save as a word document.

Cheers.

31-05-2009, 10:15

or you could intall foxit and this allows copy to clipboard

tweetiepooh · 02-06-2009, 11:28

Some PDF's are protected from cut and paste. You maybe able to print to a file and cut/paste from that, if you can print to a postscript file you may even be able to load it back up into an editor.

admars · 02-06-2009, 18:20

i thought you could use the text selection tool in free adobe reader to select and copy text, and then paste it into a document. You have to do it in blocks of text, images won't copy.

Kymmy · 02-06-2009, 18:27

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Originally Posted by admars

i thought you could use the text selection tool in free adobe reader to select and copy text, and then paste it into a document. You have to do it in blocks of text, images won't copy.

As already specified some PDF's are copy protected that means cut/paste does not always work..

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Also when cutting/pasting from adobe be aware that some documents use fonts built into the PDF itself which is probably why cut/paste gave symbolic characters instead of plain text as in the OP's first post..