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Adding a Thumbnail of a PDF Page to a PowerPoint Presentation

By Rick Borstein

PowerPoint is a tool that attorneys use to present their arguments in mediation or the courtroom.

Since documents are a key aspect of the argument, presentations may need to include large thumbnails of key pages from the case— often from PDF files.

Several methods may be used to take turn a PDF page into an image which can then be placed into PowerPoint or other applications:

1. Export the PDF as a TIFF, JPEG or other image format
2. Use a screen shot utility to "grab" a portion of the screen.
3. Print the PDF to a TIFF file
4. Use the PDF as an OLE object

I find that the methods above are multi-step and cumbersome.

In this article, I'll show you how the Snapshot Tool can place a page thumbnail into PowerPoint in one simple step!

Read on to learn how to use the Snapshot Tool.

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on December 16, 2007 (boomark / email).