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Drawing on top of Word files - any geniuses?
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I work at a publishing company and I'm trying to figure out something very specific.
I am making a PowerPoint presentation. The slides are just going to be Word documents, most likely. The book I'm working on is a book about proofreading. On some of the slides, I want it to look like someone has proofread the document, found errors, and corrected them with proofreaders' marks.
So the slide would have a sentence like this:
"Fantasy Cruise Line offer special group rates."
So that would be the part in a regular font typed in Word.
Then I'd want to be able to mark on top of that, so that I could add a carrot and the letter "s" after the word "offer" so the sentence is correct. Is this clear? This goes beyond wanting to be able to simply insert proofreaders' marks into Word documents. I haven't even checked if Word can do that. I want it to look like someone has corrected typed copy with a red pen.
My first idea was the make a PDF of the Word file and then take it into some image editing program and just use the painbrush tool to draw over top.
However seeing that I'm at work on a regular office computer, I have access to Microsoft Paint...and that's about it. I'm not doing Photoshop here. And I can't open PDFs in Paint.
So what would be ideal is if I could save a Word file as a .jpg which I could then edit in Paint. But I don't see any way to do that. And then I don't even know if I could use a .jpg as a PowerPoint slide...
Any ideas?
I am making a PowerPoint presentation. The slides are just going to be Word documents, most likely. The book I'm working on is a book about proofreading. On some of the slides, I want it to look like someone has proofread the document, found errors, and corrected them with proofreaders' marks.
So the slide would have a sentence like this:
"Fantasy Cruise Line offer special group rates."
So that would be the part in a regular font typed in Word.
Then I'd want to be able to mark on top of that, so that I could add a carrot and the letter "s" after the word "offer" so the sentence is correct. Is this clear? This goes beyond wanting to be able to simply insert proofreaders' marks into Word documents. I haven't even checked if Word can do that. I want it to look like someone has corrected typed copy with a red pen.
My first idea was the make a PDF of the Word file and then take it into some image editing program and just use the painbrush tool to draw over top.
However seeing that I'm at work on a regular office computer, I have access to Microsoft Paint...and that's about it. I'm not doing Photoshop here. And I can't open PDFs in Paint.
So what would be ideal is if I could save a Word file as a .jpg which I could then edit in Paint. But I don't see any way to do that. And then I don't even know if I could use a .jpg as a PowerPoint slide...
Any ideas?
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No, because I don't have a full version of Acrobat, either.
Wouldn't that be necessary?
Great idea. I should have thought of that. It won't look great but we're talking about PowerPoint here. Everyone hates PowerPoint presentations anyway.
Doing the whole thing in Paint as Kate suggested has already proven frustrating after trying for 5 minutes. It's not exactly great for editing text.
I'll try some other ideas here...
Type it in Word, hit Print Screen, open paint, ctrl-V, trim image to desired sized, go crazy with red paint.
(Print Screen basically dumps a bitmap of the current screen to your clipboard so you can paste it into graphics apps.)
I'm in the review tab. How do I "start inking"?
That must be it then.
The idea about doing it by hand and then scanning might be the best option so far. Also the most pain in the ass option.
Yeah. I'm hitting Print Screen on my open Word document but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. When I go into Paint it won't let me paste anything.
It shouldn't do anything when you press Print Screen. No visual feedback anyway. But if you go and create a new document in Paint or whatever then you should be able to paste and what you paste should be a screen grab from when you pressed print screen. Maybe Paint is special, but there's no reason it should be (Unless it physically doesn't have copy and paste). Download GIMP or something.
But yeah, often trying to save money means you just spend so much time trying to figure out how to do it yourself that it would've ended up being cheaper (considering your hourly wage) to just get someone who knows what they are doing, even if it is something reasonably simple.
So how exactly did you do that?
If it says there is nothing in the clipboard you might have to press something weird on your keyboard to make printscreen work. Some of the fancier keyboards assign other functions to be primary on that key, so you might have to hold down something like FN, or maybe press something to make the keys revert to standard. If you can't get it, PM me and if you email your doc to me I'll send it back to you as a bitmap so you can draw on it.
Think of print screen as Copy. You then need to paste it into a drawing program. Paint is free with windows but lots of people have Photoshop as well. Draw overtop.