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I know how to copy images in the acroread, but I need to know what tools that will accept the image content copied from the acroread.
From acroread' manual:
,----- | To copy an image or text in image format using the Snapshot tool: | Select the Snapshot tool , and do one of the following: | | Click in the page to capture the content displayed on-screen. | Drag a box around the text, images, or a combination of both. | Drag a box within an image to copy just a portion of the image. | | Colors in the selected area are inverted momentarily to highlight | the selection. You can open a file in another application and | paste the copied selection directly into the target document. `-----
The problem is that I'm yet to find this "another application" that will accept the image content copied from the acroread.
My first guess is gimp, but it won't work. All that I got is the following in the log (no images shown):
offered type: TIMESTAMP offered type: TARGETS offered type: MULTIPLE [...] checking pixbuf format 'gif' - checking mime type 'image/gif' checking pixbuf format 'jpeg' - checking mime type 'image/jpeg'
T
> taking a snapshot should definitely work.... > ... > i cant imagine that not working
Sure it works, but…
Screenshots are not quite the same, however, because they are limited by the screen size and resolution. I.e., if you copy graphics from Acrobat Reader the bitmap will only be in the resolution you are viewing it. Whereas an image-capture tool in the PDF viewer can use a higher resolution and color depth.
T
I was able to copy images from a pdf in acroread into the following programs:
Kword OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Writer and Impress) And, yes, The Gimp does work for me. Not sure why it doesn't work for you.
chemdawg Distribution: Mandriva
http://lwn.net/Articles/113094/
..if you copy graphics from Acrobat Reader the bitmap will only be in the. resolution you are viewing it. You can print the selection to a Postscript file though and thus get the full resolution. But it doesn't seem to work all the time…
Another annoying thing is that you still can't paste an image copied from acroread into Gimp. (In Unix that is, it allegedly works in Windows.) It works with Xpaint though.