Copy/Paste - Adobe style :P

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:21 pm

I was curious if it is possible in a pdf through adobe acrobat to move stuff around on pages that are really just scans of other stuff? Like if I have a D&D character sheet (legally downloaded from Wizards.com) and I want to delete the part about casting spells (incase I wanna play a fighter). I tried the snapshot tool, the crop tool, some object tools..I have tried ctrl C ctrl V thing, and nothing works.

I want to be able to move stuff from one page to the other..or move multiple things to one page, etc..but I just don't know how.

tom the terribl · Post by **tom the terribl** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:50 pm

[QUOTE=Paranitis]I was curious if it is possible in a pdf through adobe acrobat to move stuff around on pages that are really just scans of other stuff? Like if I have a D&D character sheet (legally downloaded from Wizards.com) and I want to delete the part about casting spells (incase I wanna play a fighter). I tried the snapshot tool, the crop tool, some object tools..I have tried ctrl C ctrl V thing, and nothing works.

I want to be able to move stuff from one page to the other..or move multiple things to one page, etc..but I just don't know how.[/QUOTE]

If your trying to edit a game you need the game editor. I don't know about D&D but I have the Dungeon Siege editor. But if your trying to edit a pdf file try using Micorsoft Word. It converts everything but the result may be weird if codes are used like special documet characters. And you can use Word to output to pdf too. PDF is a picture not text thats why you need Word or, I hope not, Word (in)Perfect.

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:33 am

I'm not trying to do anything with a game..a D&D character sheet is just a pdf file that prints two sides of a piece of paper..that's it, lol

Yeltsu · Post by **Yeltsu** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:20 am

I don't think it is possible to change\copy anything from an adobe document unless you do it manually, e.g writing it over again in word or whatever.

but of course, I could be mistaken

stramoski · Post by **stramoski** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:38 am

Editing PDFs

I know of two options:

1) Buy the "Professional" Version of Adobe Acrobat...
2) Get Open Office... It's a freeware version of MS Office that, if I remember correctly, has PDF altering capability. You can get it from: http://www.openoffice.org/