PDF picture placement into Word

[Barb]

I am running Windows XP Home with Office 2002 SP2. I
tried to place a PDF into Word as a picture but it didn't
work. The MS support page provides a list of supported
picture file formats and PDF is not one of them. I know
in a previous version of Word (98 I think), I was able to
do this. I also have a mac running OS X and Office X and
a PDF IS a supported picture file format. Does anyone
know if there is a solution that would allow a PDF to be
placed in Word on a PC??

THANK YOU!!

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

Edit>Paste Special>Device Independent Bitmap.
Or, if you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, open the PDF in Acrobat,
Save As>TIF. Then in MS Word, Insert>Picture>From File.

Regards,
Chad

 

[Jeroen Dekker]

Barb,

PDF is the core display format of Mac OS X, and that it why MS Office
supports PDF import there. Not so on Windows PCs, where GDI(+) is the
core display language. To my knowledge, Word on Windows has never
supported inserting PDF files as pictures.

Depending on the content of your PDF files, you could consider using
our pdf2vector software to batch convert your PDF files to (Enhanced)
Windows Metafiles, which are basically the file format equivalent of
the GDI display language mentioned above. Vector graphics, raster
images and font text strings are all preserved as such in WYSIWYG
layout. So it's basically equivalent to inserting the PDF, whereas
settling for a raster image format like TIFF makes you lose the
benefits of a vector-based format (scale, edit...).

Jeroen Dekker