Do you need to snapshot PDF for sharing or comparison? If so, you come to the right place. In this post, MiniTool PDF Editor shows you how to take a PDF screenshot easily in 3 ways.
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
It combines three technologies:
A PDF file may contain a variety of content besides flat text and graphics, including logical structuring elements, interactive elements such as annotations and form fields, layers, rich media (including video content), three-dimensional objects using U3D or PRC, and various other data formats.
Therefore, many people may like using the PDF file format to encapsulate content so that they can present the content to others or share it with others more easily.
Do you want to convert PDF to image on your device? This post introduces several feasible methods to help you.
In general, you may need to snapshot PDF for the following reasons:
To take a PDF screenshot, you can try the following ways.
MiniTool PDF Editor is a professional PDF editing program. It can create, edit, annotate, split, merge, compress, and password-protect PDFs. In addition, it can also convert PDF to various file formats or vice versa.
This software is also a nice PDF snapshot tool. With it, you can take a PDF screenshot easily. Here is the guide:
Step 1: Download and install MiniTool PDF Editor. Open your PDF file with MiniTool PDF Editor. Go to the View tab, and then click the Snapshot icon.
Tips: Once the tool opens, you can also press Alt + S to enable the PDF snapshot feature.
Step 2: Use the cursor to select the area to take snapshot of PDF. Then, you can edit the PDF screenshot with tools that appear below the screenshot. From left to right, these tools are: Rectangle, Oval, Arrow, Pencil, Highlighter, Insert Text, Undo, Save, Compare, Exit, and Copy to clipboard.
Most of these screenshot editing features are very common in many screenshot editing tools and only the Compare feature is relatively special. It will display the PDF screenshot on your PDF file directly so that you can compare the snapshot with the PDF file without a software switch. You can magnify the snapshot if you think it is small.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a classic PDF editing tool. It can also take snapshot of PDF. Here is a brief guide:
Then, you can paste the copied image into another application.
What to do if Adobe Acrobat won't open PDF files? This post offers you 7 simple solutions. You can try them if you face the same issue.
First, you can use the Print Screen button to take snapshot of PDF. You just need to open your PDF file, press the Print Screen button to take a screenshot of the PC screen, and then crop the screenshot.
If you think this method is not convenient, you can try using the Windows Snip & Sketch app. Here is the guide:
In addition to the above tools, any app can serve as a PDF snapshot tool as long as it has the screenshot feature. The only difference is whether the screenshot function of the software is simple and easy to use and whether it meets your needs.
Would you like to merge image to PDF? If so, read this post now! It shows you how to combine JPEG, PNG, or other formats of images to PDF.
Do you know other cases where you need to snapshot PDFs? Do you have other nice tools to take a PDF screenshot? Share them with us in the following comment zone. In addition, if you encounter problems when using MiniTool PDF Editor, please feel free to contact us via [email protected] . We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Linda has been working as an editor at MiniTool for 5 years. She is always curious about computer knowledge and learns it crazily. Her articles are simple and easy to understand. Even people who do not understand computer can gain something. By the way, her special focuses are disk management, data recovery and PDF editing.
