You can now simply drag and drop this image onto Word to have much higher image quality than the PDF would have given you. After hitting Save, you are left with a *.PNG file at the location of your choosing. Here the important thing to change is the Format, which we set to PNG: Also set the Size Options as shown below, to avoid ending up with lots of white space around your diagram:Īfter hitting Print, the Bullzip PDF Printer – Create File dialog will pop up. On the Print dialog, set the Printer to Bullzip PDF Printer. Next, open the original PDF diagram in Acrobat Reader, and go to File – Print. It’s excellent, and it’s free! After installation, it will show up as a printer on your machine. If we first print the PDF to PNG and then import it to Word, the result looks like this:įirst of all, download and install Bullzip PDF Printer from here. (In case you’re wondering, I took the above screenshot after printing the Word document to PDF, so that is the actual output quality.) Converting the PDF to PNG before inserting it Whichever way you choose, the result has really low quality: One is to simply drag and drop the PDF file onto Word, the other is to use Insert – Object. There are two ways of directly inserting this PDF in a Word Document. I’ll use a series of screen shots to illustrate the problem and the solution.īelow is a screenshot of the original PDF diagram. The solution I found is to print the PDF diagram to a PNG image, using the Bullzip PDF Printer, and then to insert the PNG image in the Word document. The image quality of an imported PDF document is greatly reduced when inside a word document. Word does not take kindly to this (I’m using Word 2010, Your Mileage May Vary). In our line of work, when we want to include a PDF in a Word document, 9 out of 10 times it is a diagram or a graph. I had to solve this one for my boss today, and thought I would make a quick post with the solution I found.
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