converting a Word doc to a jpg?

[spressman]

Is it possible to do that -- or otherwise import a Word doc into Photoshop? Or do I need some kind of third-party software to handle the conversion?

thanks
steve

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

It depends on what you are trying to do.

The simplest way that I use is to copy from the Word document, paste onto a new Photoshop CS3 canvas, then tidy up the fonts etc. as required, save as a jpg/psd or whatever and then import that file as a layer into whatever I am working on. There may be easier ways but that works for me.

[Steve Grisetti]

If that doesn't work, you can do it this way:

Print your Word document as a PDF. This product is free for personal use and will allow you to output a PDF from your Word doc.
http://www.cutepdf.com/

Then you can open the PDF with Photoshop. From there you can flatten the layers and export it as any picture format.

[spressman]

Thanks, John. I'll give that a try.

cheers,
steve

[spressman]

And thanks, likewise, to you Steve. Love these forums!

steve

[mark hansen]

If your word document fits on one screen, you could Screen print it (as an image) and paste it into many places.

[Chuck Engels]

We have a program that will take any document and create a multi page TIFF for faxing, if you own Microsoft Office I think you can do it with Microsoft Office Document Imaging (included with Microsoft Office). Here is a shareware program that should work well also http://www.tucows.com/preview/405702

[Gerry]

You could also do it the "Poor Man's Way" -- get your document on the screen and hit the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard.

Open Photoshop, select "New" and it'll automatically size the new file to whatever's in the cache... in this case the screen shot of your document and desktop. Paste, crop and voila.

If the whole document doesn't fit, scroll down, do another screen shot, and piece it together in Photoshop.

[RJ Johnston]

If you have Snagit 8 installed, you can print to the Snagit printer, which will open up the Snagit Capture window. Then you can select from several different file formats, including but not limited to PDF and JPEG.