[X4U] A PDF question

[Randy B. Singer]

On Oct 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I may be in need of a utility (product?) that can extract gifs/jpgs/ 
> tiffs from a PDF.

Open the PDF in Apple's Preview.  (Adobe's free Acrobat Reader will  
do just as well.)

In the toolbar at the top of the screen, choose the Selection Tool  
(it will be a little oval button with a box on it.)

Click-drag your cursor over the graphic that you want to copy, and  
create a selection box around it.

Choose Copy from the Edit menu.

Open a document in another program, such as a word processor or  
graphics program, and choose Paste.

Viola!  Your graphic is now in another document...with no additional  
investment of money.


Here is an alternate (and still free) course of action:

Open the PDF in Apple's Preview.

Choose Save As... and under the Format drop down menu choose your  
favorite graphic format, such as JPEG.

Choose Save, and your PDF will now be a graphic file.

Open this new graphic file in your favorite graphics program.  Select  
and delete all but the graphic that you want to save.  Save the file.


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Randy B. Singer
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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
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