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#1 Chuckfoo

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Posted 07 November 2005 - 11:11 PM

I got all my school books on one disk, and all i want to do is copy and paste vocab words, but it has an encryption, anyway to get around it?

#2 Retired Tech

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 12:15 AM

Copy the file, (not move) from the CD to the hard drive

#3 Chuckfoo

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 12:21 AM

It still wont let me copy and paste.

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 12:25 AM

Press File, save as text to get a notepad document.

Open Word, press file, open, look for all files, open the notepad document then save as Word or RTF file

#5 Tyger

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 12:54 PM

There's a text copy tool and an image copy tool in Acroreader.

#6 Chuckfoo

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 01:10 PM

When i view it as a text file, it works, but the text of the book is set up so that the notepad sees on just on line when there 3 different parts, its hard to explain, but it will do.

About the copy and paste tool i dont see it, but i found this Attached Image: opss.jpg so i dont think that will work

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 01:43 PM

If you open the notepad doc in Word, save as RTF or Word doc, then press format, columns, then 3 columns, then OK, you might be lucky

#8 Chuckfoo

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 02:00 PM

no luck

#9 dsenette

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 02:02 PM

in notpad click format then make sure word wrap is checked

#10 Chuckfoo

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 02:50 PM

kinda worked but words are still all mixed up

#11 dsenette

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 03:05 PM

yeah...it's gonna do that....to edit pdf's you either need to pay adobe for the full acrobat suite, or you need to get some other form of pdf editor....photoshop works..

#12 Chuckfoo

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 04:11 PM

I have photoshop cs2 but when i go to open it, it ask for a password.

#13 starjax

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 09:36 AM

since when can photoshop edit a pdf file?


make sure your using the latest version of acrobat reader.

also you can try pdfedit: http://www.download.com/PdfEdit995/3000-66...tml?tag=lst-4-2
bonus is that it is free.

#14 Chuckfoo

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 11:44 PM

it asks for a password a password in photoshop, bu i will try pdffedit

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