Word cannot import PDF, but...
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Word has no filters to enable the
import of Adobe PDF format files. Acrobat and Reader from Version 7 allow single page
PDF files to be inserted as objects, but as objects
cannot span pages only the first page of multi-page PDF files will be
displayed.
Owners of the full version of Acrobat
would be able to save the PDF to a graphical format such as JPG.
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Others will require the purchase of additional
software to achieve the same ends - in the following example, the excellent SnagIt from
www.techsmith.com (which,
incidentally, was used to produce all the screen images on this web
site)
SnagIt includes a very convenient
'printer' driver which will output multi-page documents as separate
graphics images - one for each page - in a variety of formats. This
driver can be used with any application that you can print from, so the
technique described below is not limited to Acrobat. |
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First get your image files. |
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The first step is to setup the SnagIt driver to output to
pre-named and numbered files in a folder of your choice. The following
images are from SnagIt 7.2 in 'Classic' view, but other versions are
essentially similar. Select 'Printer Capture' mode then 'Output >
Properties' from the menus.
In the following sequence of screen shots, I have
configured the output to save the files with the default name in a
folder c:\temp, which we will be using in the macro later. |
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Using the print option from your application - here Adobe
Acrobat 6 - print the document or parts of the document you wish to
insert into Word. |
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This will produce a collection of numbered files in the
chosen folder. It doesn't matter if there are other files in the folder. |
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macro. |
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The page area that can be setup in Word is determined by
the printer driver, so the first step is to establish the limits for the
current printer driver. The easiest way to do this is to set all the
margins at zero. When you OK this you'll get an error message. Select
FIX and the limits are inserted in the dialog. To make things easier,
record these steps in a macro as in the following sequence of
illustrations |
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The macro name is irrelevant. We are
only using it to gather the settings, so you can delete it later. For
now, accept the default offered. |
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With the recorder running set up the page layout with
zero margins as below and click OK. Then force Word to fix the error and
finally stop the macro recorder. |
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Edit the macro you have just recorded. Highlight the
section indicated and copy to the clipboard. |
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Move the cursor to the end (CTRL+End) and
paste the following code at the cursor: |
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Sub InsertImages()
Dim Count, SFileNo, SFile
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdSectionBreakNextPage
With Selection.PageSetup
.Orientation = wdOrientPortrait
.TopMargin = CentimetersToPoints(0.3)
.BottomMargin = CentimetersToPoints(1.4)
.LeftMargin = CentimetersToPoints(0.3)
.RightMargin = CentimetersToPoints(0.3)
End With
Count = 0
Do
On Error GoTo oops
SFileNo = Right("000" & Count, 4)
SFile = "C:\Temp\Allfiles-" & SFileNo & ".jpg"
Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture FileName:=SFile
Count = Count + 1
Loop
oops:
End Sub |
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Select the matching block (coloured red in the listing
for clarity) then CTRL+V to paste the clipboard content over the
selected block, thus inserting your personal settings in the macro.
You can attach the macro to a toolbar button, but as this
is unlikely to be something you need to do too often, it is probably
more sensible to run it from tools > macro > macros when
required. Running the macro will insert the graphics files, in the
correct order into the Word document, each on a new page. |
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For more
information about installing macros from code listings and adding them
to toolbars, use
this link |
