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I.
Using Acrobat Reader (free-of-charge)
A
- Copy page-by-page
- Open
a document from UNESDOC and display the page you are
looking for.
- Click
on the tool
'T' so that three icons appear:
- Selection
of text(²)
- Selection
of text in columns(²)
- Selection
of graphics
- Choose
option 1 or 2, select your text," copy " it
using the right-hand button of the mouse, then open
a word-processing application and "paste" it.
(1) In
English, French, Spanish and recents Russian documents
(2) If
the selection "text" does not work, it
means that the page displayed is an "image"
B
- Copy the whole document
- Open
a document from UNESDOC
- Click
on the "hand" tool
- In
your opened document, click on the right-hand button
of the mouse and select "Continuous"
- Click
on the tool 'T'
- In
your opened document, click on the right-hand button
of the mouse and "Select all"
- "Copy" the
selected text
- Open
a word-processing application and "paste" it.
II
- Using Acrobat : copy formatted text (page-by-page
with the initial layout)
- First
of all open Acrobat outside
your browser and inside "File", "Preference", "General", unclick4 "Web
browser integration"
- Then
start up your browser and open a PDF document from
UNESDOC : the document is opened in Acrobat window;
this allows you to open several files at the same
time.
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Click
on the tool
'T' so that four icons appear:
Choose selection
of text "formatted" (page-by-page
with the initial layout) and proceed, as
above, to paste the selected text in your Word
processor.
(4)
Working with Netscape may cause problems
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It
is now possible to have direct access to a Resolution,
a Decision or a paragraph of the 30 C/5 Approved by using
the mode "named destination" of the PDF files*
Example:
From your WEB pages, you would like to consult Resolution 30 C/29,
the English version:
Proceed
in the same way for the 30 C/5 approved
Example:
To access paragraph 12101 of the French version
*These
methods are operational on:
- 30
C/5 Approved, 31 C/5 Approved (English, French)
- 18
to 31 C/Resolutions (English, French)
- 109
to 163 EX/Decisions (English, French)
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