Computer help?

[Upgradable]

Okay, you can laugh at me all you want. I'm a dinosaur!

Can I copy a two page Adobe document and open it in Paint?

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Edited...didn't work...Sorry!

 

[JewelFreak]

Yes, you can, Uppy. At least, I do it with Paintshop. Open the page you want to copy, then on your keyboard, hit the PRT SCR key in the top row toward the right. Open Paint, click on Edit, then, Paste As New Image. (Those are the terms in Paintshop -- Paint must be similar.) Voila, there's your page. You can then clip it, do whatever you want with it, & save it as a jPEG or any other type of file.

Holler if it doesn't work. I do it all the time with stuff I want to post here.

--- Laurie

 

[Upgradable]

Jewel, I've done that, but it only copies the portion I can see on the screen, not the entire document. I've tried to cut and paste it together, but what a PITA!! Plus it is really crappy to work with. I've also tried downsizing the view % of the original document, but then the resolution is too small to work with.

What I really need to do is to open a college major worksheet and be able to check things off or move them around between semesters. Opening in an Excel document would work too, I guess.

 

[JewelFreak]

That's the one problem with it, Uppy. I don't know how to copy more than the screen shows either. For magazine articles, etc., I have cut & pasted, -- that's hard enough -- but complicated stuff like worksheets is just awful. Have you tried asking Adobe or looking on their website? A few yrs ago when I was ready to tear my hair out, I researched & found an Adobe version that will copy things, but as I recall, it was a business program & therefore cost an arm & a leg. Don't even know if it still exists.

Try entering it as a query in your web browser -- if there are solutions, forums should come up about it. Let me know if you find anything, please!

--- Laurie

 

[Puppmom]

Uppy, have you tried zooming out a little so that the entire doc fits in one screen? ...if, of course, that doesn't make the doc too small to read. If it's strictly text, you can copy and paste into word. There are also some free tools out there. We use snipping tool but I can't remember if you can copy a scrolling window into an image.

 

[iLander]

Uppy,

Are all your Illustrator elements within the Illustrator document size? The whole screen is not the document, there is extra area beyond the document.

 

[Upgradable]

Pupp, the resolution is too small if I do that. Here is the document I want to work with. http://checksheets.ou.edu/ias-intl.pdf
I need to check and cross-reference the classes between the course requirements and the suggested semester plan of study.


ETA: Our printer is D.E.A.D. Hubby refuses to replace it before the holidays. It would be so much simpler to just have a hard copy and my rainbow of highlighters color coordinated with each semester!

 

[Puppmom]

Sheesh! That's small print even at 100%! You should be able to copy that entire document and paste into Word. You'll lose a little formatting but it should work for what you're doing.

I can sympathize re: the printer. We just bought another for $29 at walmart because I like to print coupons and haven't been able to in months because DH kept insisting he could fix it.

 

[Upgradable]

I just did another cut and paste. It is better looking than the first. Hubby can freely print at work. I'm only there part time and filters don't allow me to print other than work software. If he were home, he'd have a new printer installed long ago.

 

[JewelFreak]

I just did another cut and paste. It is better looking than the first. Hubby can freely print at work. I'm only there part time and filters don't allow me to print other than work software. If he were home, he'd have a new printer installed long ago.

Sounds like you live here! Very familiar.

Glad you figured something out, Uppy. So darned frustrating that you can't copy or download Adobe things. I wish they'd fix that.