Where's the snapshot tool gone?

For some reason best known to themselves, Adobe have not made the snapshot tool visible in the default toolbar. To make it visible, you need to right click (control click on a Mac) in the empty part of the Adobe Toolbar to bring up a menu.



From the menu, left click on "More Tools" at the bottom and that will bring up a long list. Go right down to the bottom of the list and you will find the Snapshot tool. Click in the box next to the image to tick it and click on OK.


The snapshot tool should now appear in your toolbar.


So, what can you do with the Snapshot tool? Well this enables you to "grab" any part of the PDF file that you can see. Click the snapshot tool, then drag your mouse around something you want to copy, and when you let go, there's a flash (like a camera - get it?) and the area you selected is copied to the computer clipboard. Press the snapshot tool again to turn it off.


You can then go into another program that understands graphic images (Word, Publisher, PaintShop Pro, Photoshop, etc) and press paste (Control + V or right click and paste) to put your copied item into that program.


There are limits to it - you'll find that it will go pixelated if you try to enlarge the item, it's really much better for when you want to shrink something down or just select one tag from a page.

Anyway hope that helps all of you who feel lost without your Snapshot tool!


Glenda