<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 10, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Honza in the Czech Republic wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This days Tomas has also software via it he also can edit pdf. files, but what Anny have done will sure help...</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>Yes. Anny's work is a great help. There is also another way to extract the illustrations from any PDF file now...It is free with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program...Read the instructions below:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px">--------------------------------------------<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">HOW TO CREATE A TRANSLATION OF A SIGNWRITING BOOK...</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">1. Download the SignWriting document in PDF Format <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Let us imagine you wish to translate the Level 3 Goldilocks story. I <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> download it by clicking on this link:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Goldilocks Storybook, SignWriting Level 3 <BR></FONT><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0168-US-Goldilocks-Level3.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002BF0">http://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0168-US-Goldilocks-Level3.pdf</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">---------</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">2. Once you download the document, be sure that you have Acrobat Reader <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> 7.0, which is a free program. You can download the newest version of <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Acrobat, 7.0, on the web. Do that now:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Download Acrobat Reader 7.0 <BR></FONT><A href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002BF0">http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">---------</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">3. Open the Goldilocks document in Acrobat Reader 7.0...</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">4. With your document open to the front page in Acrobat Reader...Chose <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> SAVE AS TEXT under the File Menu (see diagram). This will create a Text <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> document of all of the spoken language in the entire document. It will <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> be saved as a .txt document on your desktop. You can open it in <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> MicroSoft Word or any Text editor program, so you can prepare the <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> translation from English to your spoken language easily...continued <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> next message...</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">5. To capture the graphics in the document, there are two methods using <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Acrobat Reader 7.0...the Select Tool and the Snapshot Tool...</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">6. SELECT TOOL in Acrobat Reader <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Under the Tools Menu, go to Basic, and then Select Tool. Click on the <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> diagram you want to copy, and then choose Copy from the File Menu. You <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> can then paste it into other documents.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">7. SNAPSHOT TOOL in Acrobat Reader 7.0 <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Under the Tools Menu, go to Basic, and then Snapshot Tool. You will get <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> a crosshair tool. Make a box around the area you want to take a picture <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> of...This will place the snapshot of your diagram on your clipboard, so <BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> you can paste it into another document, such as Microsoft Word...</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></P></BODY></HTML>