<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">SignWriting List</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">June 10, 2005</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR></FONT><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Val -- for me as a translator the best way would be to copy text from the pdf file to the Word file because I use a CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool to translate texts in Word. If coping text from the pdf file with SW lessons is not possible, I'll translate from the French version, looking at the English one :-)/</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Yes...Using Anny's document is excellent, but there is now a second way... to extract the text and diagrams from a PDF file, for free, without any special software...if you see number 4 in the instructions below...So now you have both Anny's files, plus this new method...made possible by the new Acrobat Reader 7.0...</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></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: 14.0px Geneva; min-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR></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></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> Let us imagine you wish to translate the Level 3 Goldilocks story. I <BR> download it by clicking on this link: </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" color="#003FF2"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">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></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> 7.0, which is a free program. You can download the newest version of <BR> Acrobat, 7.0, on the web. Do that now: </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" color="#003FF2"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">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></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> SAVE AS TEXT under the File Menu (see diagram). This will create a Text <BR> document of all of the spoken language in the entire document. It will <BR> be saved as a .txt document on your desktop. You can open it in <BR> MicroSoft Word or any Text editor program, so you can prepare the <BR> translation from English to your spoken language easily...continued <BR> next message... </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> Acrobat Reader 7.0...the Select Tool and the Snapshot Tool... </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> Under the Tools Menu, go to Basic, and then Select Tool. Click on the <BR> diagram you want to copy, and then choose Copy from the File Menu. You <BR> can then paste it into other documents. </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> Under the Tools Menu, go to Basic, and then Snapshot Tool. You will get <BR> a crosshair tool. Make a box around the area you want to take a picture <BR> of...This will place the snapshot of your diagram on your clipboard, so <BR> you can paste it into another document, such as Microsoft Word... </FONT></P></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>