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title: Inserting graphics into a PDF
date: 2005-09-09
topics: PDF
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If you have Adobe Acrobat (the real deal, not just the reader) you can insert
graphics into PDF docs, but it is not intuitive—mainly because Acrobat can only
cut and paste graphics *within itself*, not to/from other programs.

1. Click *Document* menu → *Insert Page*
2. In the *Browse*window, change the file type to your graphics format (GIF,
   JPG, etc) and select your graphics file.
3. The image will be inserted on its own page.
4. Click the TouchUp Object tool on the toolbar. Right-click the image and
   select *Cut*.
5. Go to the page where you want the document and *Paste* in the image. Drag and
   drop the image to its correct location.
6. Click *Document* menu → *Delete page* and delete the (now-empty) page you
   just inserted.

Resizing the graphics: I haven’t yet figured that out. I am using 5.0 (an old
version) so things may be different in the newer versions of Acrobat.