Re: PDF graphics pasting

["D. Margulis" <ampersandvirgule -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET>]

Mark Dempsey wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After reading about the "PDF graphic nightmare" I have one further
> question about *electronic* pdf file:
>
> We've successfully got our graphics to print at a higher resolution, but
> we've never been able to offer our pdf files so the graphics can be cut
> and pasted into other electronic forms (usually RFP's in Word).
>
> Any suggestions about how to make this work? The graphics *print* fine,
> but are fuzzy when pasted.
>
>

Mark,

"Fuzzy" is a fuzzy description of your problem, but if it means what I
think it means, try this stupid human trick:

After using the graphics selection tool (Ctrl-Shift-5) to select the
graphic, click the toolbar button for the zoom tool (the magnifying
glass) and zoom the selected graphic once or twice. Then Copy (Ctrl-C)
to the clipboard and paste in the target application. The selected
region remains selected while you zoom.

What you are copying is the raster image inside the box, not the
underlying postscript code that produces it, so each time you zoom, you
increase the resolution (and the file size!).

Obviously, the resulting pasted graphic cannot be any better than what
you see on the monitor. And you will still see considerable degradation
of text that is embedded into an image and then converted to a GIF and
then distilled to a PDF and then copied and pasted into a Word graphic.
But you may at least get somewhat better results than you have been.

HTH