you can't do it, even with acrobat exchange (it only lets you edit the text) the easiest way is to zoom and fill the screen with the schematic, and press ALT+Print Screen that would copy the active window to the clipboard then use any graphics program to paste, and edit it (it's a bitmap) At 07:51 01/09/98 , you wrote: >At 17:29 1/09/98 +1000, you wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ricardo Ponte G [SMTP:rniniver@CANTV.NET] >> >>Sent: Tuesday, 1 September 1998 03:22 PM >>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >>Subject: I«ve to edit a circuitry in a PDF file. Can I ? >> >>Hi: >>I have a PIC16C715 datasheet in pdf fotmat and I want to select a portion of >>a circuitry to paste it in some text editor. (I want to edit a page of a pdf >>file) >>Can I do it some how ??? >>thanks if you can help me and please, sorry for the off topic theme. >>Sorry Richardo >>The only way to do that is to buy acrobat from adobe and boy does it cost >>:>( or else, find someone who has got it and get them to convert it or cut >>the bit you want. A pdf file is a text file and any image could located >>within the file and removed but then you would have to know how to >>decompress it >> > >I'd use ghostscript for extracting to text, but the only way I can think of >to grab a picture is to do a screendump while viewing it, and paste it into >Windows paint. > >Brad.... > >"Out of my mind, Back in 5 Minutes" >"Windows Multitasking: messing up several things at once" >"Microsoft. How do you want to crash today?" > _____________________________________________________ Osama ALASSIRY osama@qatar.net.qa osama@alassiry.com http://www.alassiry.com