Copy and Paste Problem

[Mike]

Using Publisher 2003.

I am trying to copy and paste an Adobe page into a newsletter I am putting
together. When I use either the "paste or Special paste" functions the file
transfers to the designated page, however, when I try to save the newsletter
file I get a blank balloon from the assistant. The only thing that shows in
the balloon is an "OK", clicking on the box terminates the program and the
just inserted page is not saved.

Any ideas on how to work this problem, I really need that Adobe page, tried
converting it to a word file, however the formatting and type faces are
lost.

Thank you.

Mike

 

[DBOYD1952]

bEST THING I FOUND AT WORK WAS TO FIRST SAVE MY ADOBE FILE AS 'RICH DOC.
TYPE' THEN TRANSFER OVER. ADOBE IS NOT A RICH DOCUMENT TYPE OF FILE; AND
WON'T ALLOW SAVES... JUST MY GUESS, SORRY IF I MIS-LED

 

[Ed Bennett]

I am trying to copy and paste an Adobe page into a newsletter I am
putting together. When I use either the "paste or Special paste"
functions the file transfers to the designated page, however, when I
try to save the newsletter file I get a blank balloon from the
assistant. The only thing that shows in the balloon is an "OK",
clicking on the box terminates the program and the just inserted page
is not saved.

Copying and pasting into Publisher has been known to cause instability - I
suggest that you export your PDF file as an image file. If you don't have
the full version of Adobe Acrobat, then there are free tools that will do
this for you (although they're not as easy to use as Acrobat). GhostScript
does the actual work, and is available from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
GSView is a graphical interface for GhostScript that makes GhostScript
slightly easier to use (although it's still not the easiest application in
the world), and is available at the same location.

File > Export should do the trick; you'll want to use the "png16m" filter
(this exports 24-bit PNG files; don't confuse it with the "png16" filter
which exports 4-bit images); set the resolution to 300 or 600.

 

[Mike]

Thank you both.

I will try both suggestions.

Really appreciate your time and expertise.

Mike