Uploading PDF Files to the Forum

[cornershop15]

[Have to be careful how you say that!]



Good morning. This is for members who have PDF documents but don't know how to incorporate them into their posts.



My computer man visited yesterday afternoon and brought round the all-in-one printer and scanner he purchased for me last week. This will make a tremendous difference to me as I can now scan newspaper articles, books and magazines to help me with future posts, notably old Obituaries, which I hope will interest many readers. Even better, thanks to him, I have at last found out how to copy individual PDF articles and turn them into computer files. This, in turn, allows me to upload them to Photobucket and then here at the Forum.



For those who want to know more (there might be some!), this Wikipedia link describes what it is and what it does - Portable Document Format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - but it's far too technical for me to understand. Nevertheless, I have still managed to upload my first PDF file to Photobucket (see below) using this technique:



Once you've found what you want to copy, press - and hold - the Alt key together with Print Screen (Prt Scr).

Click the Start button and then, via All Programs, go to Accessories and click Paint.

You should then see a blank/white square against a grey background. That's normal. If you click Edit, then Paste your page should appear.

Right-click the screen and and choose Copy To, then, in the window that pops up, choose My Documents and type a file name.



This is how my attempt looks:







Not entirely successful as it turned out. The quality is excellent but I should have decreased the image to get the whole page to fit the screen. This is from the TVTimes of 27th September 1969, the day after The Beatles album Abbey Road was released. For those who don't recognise the man in the picture, it's Michael Miles, presenter of the game show Wheel of Fortune, later revived with Nicky Campbell and Bradley Walsh as hosts. The thumbnails in the left panel are of the other pages in the document/magazine.



Here is another page from that issue, this time with the thumbnails and toolbars cropped out.





A great night in as far as I'm concerned. Liverpudlian comedian Norman Vaughan was the original host of Mr And Mrs, before Derek Batey and Alan Taylor.

Danish actress Yutte Stensgaard, who was in quite a few episodes of Doctor in the House, was in one of my favourite episodes of Special Branch the previous month , but sadly disappeared from our screens in 1972.

Hadleigh, like the Doctor series, is now available on DVD.



I wish I could say the same for this one ...







Julia Foster, Richard O' Sullivan, centre, and Robin Bailey in a scene from Seven Deadly Sins: A Temporary Typist.



This is the image I've most wanted to share with you, ever since I joined. It was a play, broadcast 6th June 1966 (all the sixes) on ITV. Julia and Richard were regular faces on TV when I was growing up in the 1970s and I was totally unaware of it's existance until I got this (PDF) copy of the TVTimes a couple of years ago. Only to discover that it doesn't exist anymore. The play was made in black and white so the colour photo is haunting, intriguing and, most of all sad, to look at. This is all I have to illustrate what I've missed but, as it's still a nice picture, I hope you like it. As with the other samples I provided.



I'll be very interested to know of others' experiences with uploading PDF files and if you want to give it a try, especially those who have old articles on stars and TV shows. Anything rare from the 1950s to the 1970s would be greatly appreciated.

[HIPPIEDAVE]

Seems like only yesterday I was about 8 and watching Michael Miles aah better days of Shillings, Lucky Bags and Political Correctness was nowhere to be found

[cornershop15]

I'll be very interested to know of others' experiences with uploading PDF files and if you want to give it a try, especially those who have old articles on stars and TV shows. Anything rare from the 1950s to the 1970s would be greatly appreciated.

billy farmer has asked me about posting full-page articles so I am reviving this long forgotten thread in the hope that it will help him and anyone else who's willing to share their discoveries. Well done, billy, for uploading what you've done so far from TVTimes issues. Hope you succeed this time too.

[DB7]

Or go to Convert PDF to Word (DOC) — 100% Free! and paste the text.

[Arfur Teacake]

Hey Cornershop.
I dont know if I have mentioned it before , but something you might want to investigate?
Djvu

DjVu.org - the premier menu for djvu resources

Djvu was invented by AT&T as a way of making PDF style files , low in bytes but high on features and much cheaper than Acrobat, it is used by many libraries .

However AT&T past it on to another company which just died in inter political squabbles and now it just lies in a sort of limbo .

However you can still transfer documents on line here

Any2DjVu Server

and on the site you will find plug in viewers for various op systems
plus the past and present situation on the software.

As I say it might be something you want to experiment with if you do a lot of PDF woek, such as comparing file sizes with PDF etc.

[cornershop15]

Thanks for your reply, Arfur. It is actually billy farmer who is having trouble, although he hasn't mentioned it here. He said he wants to enlarge full-page articles and make them readable. Will your link help, do you think? My suggestion was to go to Full Screen (click View on the Toolbar and it's the last option), which makes the text far clearer.

That didn't occur to me when I uploaded the documents in the first post and there are quiet a few I might need to do again to make them more acceptable. Tonch, who hasn't been around for a while, was a great help in advising me how to splice pages together and I'm now going to have a go at doing the same thing with Attachments at the Duncan Lamont thread. Everything else seems fine. It's writing that's the problem.

[A Pemberton]

A great night in as far as I'm concerned. Liverpudlian comedian Norman Vaughan was the original host of Mr And Mrs, before Derek Batey and Alan Taylor.

Alan Taylor from Mr and Mrs



Hello Cornershop,as ever another great post,though I must bring you to task on Mr and Mrs ,West country icon Alan Taylor is ,if I remember,(stand to be corrected) the original host,Alan was king of HTV West and an everpresent on our screens with Tinker Taylor and Paint along with Nancy in the early 70s.Mr and Mrs came across from TWW (early wales and south west franchise holder from its original welsh form to HTV for Alan to take it over late sixties early seventies.
Alan was a kind of cultural ever-present for anyone over forty who grew up in the late sixties early seventies HTV West Bristol area.
Its interesting to remember that there were quite a few of these figure head characters from local ITV regions Richard Whitley and Bob Warman spring to mind that gave ITV is local "feel" which is now sadly gone......

[Arfur Teacake]

Aha ha I see Cornershop . . i would think that if he wants them readable in PDF at full page all he has to do is follow your scanning resolution and page dimensions- just a thought anyway.