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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] 1841 Census CD - West Riding
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:17:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <004601c21730$46482f00$c111c2cf@a3a51748>


"Marg Cambridge" <> wrote.....

> So far they have been good for me as I have found many families of interest.
> Some pages are difficult to read and some unreadable but I have found this
> on films as well. The only problem I have is trying to figure out a way to
> copy and paste to another program. It uses Adobe Reader 4.0 which is only a
> reader......and you need Adobe 5.5 to do more than read apparently, and
> that's quite expensive. There must be a way around that but I don't know
> how.<<

THERE is a way! Try this, Marge.....

When you have an image on screen in Adobe Acrobat Reader, take a
screen dump of it. You do this by pressing ALT/PRINTSCRN. Then open
up Photoshop, Paint or whatever your graphics program is, create a
new file, go to Edit on the menu bar (of the graphics program) and
click on PASTE.

You should find the screen image of the PDF file is pasted into the
graphics program. You can then manipulate it in the normal way, i.e.
crop out the bits of the screen you don't want, darken, lighten,
enlarge, enhance, etc - and save it as a graphics file in whatever
format you like.

I only have Acrobat Reader 4.0, like you, and I just tried it with
Photoshop and Paint and it works with both!

Roy Stockdill
Editor, the Journal of One-Name Studies
Editor, "My Ancestors Were..." series (Society of Genealogists)
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith

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