How to create a table with lines &also.. graphs inside photo shop

[Kelly Johnson]

Do you have any other programs you can use along with Photoshop like Illustrator, InDesign, Quark etc? If not, get happy with the Pen tool in Photoshop and use that to draw your tables/grids/charts. After you draw lines, you can stroke them.

[Kim Mackenzie]

If you’re able to generate either a PDF or Postcript file out of Word or Excel, you can open that file in Photoshop.

[Joseph Dezordi]

Excuse my ignorance, I am not familiar with illustrator, can I download a trial version, or some free program that is similar?

The problem is I need to put these into a DVD , which means I have to turn them into a Movie, as an MPG2.. I use Sony Vegas for this… so instead of a slide show, I end up with a movie, & I use the DVD remote control to pause scroll through the chapters, some of the ‘ scenes’ are graphics, & some are video…

I can print to pdf from word using Jaws pdf creator

[Kim Mackenzie]

Make a PDF out of Word, then drag that file on top of Photoshop to rasterize it. It should look exactly as it did in Word — you won’t lose the formatting the way you do when you copy/paste.

[Joseph Dezordi]

Thanks for that, can you explain what you mean by, ‘ drag that file on top of photoshop’.. ..

[Kim Mackenzie]

Drag and drop the PDF file onto the Photoshop application icon.

Or from within Photoshop, go to File > Open and select the PDF (dragging and dropping does the same thing).

[Joseph Dezordi]

This looks promising
I made a 3 d graph in Word, exported it to PDF, & opened it in Photoshop, I then cropped it because the image was the size of A4.page..I need it to be the size of a PAL TV screen

Is there any way that you can export from word just the image as a PDF or JPEG, as I need a constant size [ 720 by 576 pixels for video….]….

How do they make Graphs on TV any how?