Strategy: Adobe Reader Snapshot tool for images

6 Keywords: PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Snapshot Tool, PDF Accessibility, Adobe Reader, Portable Document Format (PDF)

"Because I cannot write by hand I have to type in annotations and this is not possible on PDF documents so I have to save them as text where possible. This means they lose their format and all the pictures disappear. I use Snapshot Tool for important pictures and diagrams to put them into the new text document but this takes time."

The example I have used comes from a document called Attitudes of Nurses to Euthanasia (an unpublished thesis by Janet Holt)

PDF original view with graphPDF text view

The first picture shows a page from the original document with a graph - the second picture is the same page saved as text format and finally the original section is copied into Word with the graph added using the Adobe Reader Snapshot Tool plus typed annotations highlighted in yellow.

PDF in Word with graphAdobe Reader Snapshot Tool

Quote

"I do have problems if the lecturer puts PDF files onto Blackboard, because I cannot annotate them in their original format. If you save them as text in Adobe Reader you lose all the pictures."

- Ben

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