Hello Nick, I haven’t got a lot of PDFs on my computer and none of them are long. I haven’t tried the Search facility either. As for copying text, it’s a nuisance that PDFs have new lines everywhere, preventing us from making use of the VO commands for reading by sentence or paragraph. I really don’t like working with PDFs and usually copy the whole thing into TextEdit for easier manipulation.
Cheers, Anne > On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:48, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Strange indeed. The issue I was getting with not being able to copy at all I > think was related to having just performed a search. I’m guessing some kind > of search dialog pops up which blocks the view or for some reason stops one > from being able to copy text. I couldn’t work out how to make the search box > (which VoiceOver describes as an image browser) disappear. > > I did, however, try with some other PDFs without first performing a search. > With all of the ones I tried I only managed to paste an image into TextEdit. > I tried with scanned and OCR-ed PDFs as well as original text-based PDFs > downloaded from the internet. > > I might put together a couple of example PDFs to send to Apple Accessibility > to illustrate the issue. Would be good to resolve this one as I find copying > from PDFs this way really useful. The alternative was to do a VO-shift-c for > each line, but this could get tedious with longer passages. > > Do you know of a way to dismiss the search results box in Preview by any > chance? > > I might just start reading PDFs with Nisus Writer Pro if these issues don’t > clear up. Hopefully that still works. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
