About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 3/27/2007 Subject: Editing a document in adobe
Question I have received an email thta has an attachment in Adobe. I would like to copy that to Word so that I can edit it and save it as a word document. Is this possible?
Answer In some cases, yes, simply open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat and use the select text tool, copy to the clip board, then navigate to your word document, then paste. Of course, the person who created that PDF file may have disabled this using security settings - Many Adobe internal technical notes and publishers of 'for sale' newsletters turn this ability off to prohibit this. To learn if this is the case, in Adobe Acrobat, under the File menu, select Document properties and click over the security tab.
