This is what I usually do too. And this morning when I opened something in Preview and it said "static text" I could still select all and copy it into text edit.
-- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > On Oct 24, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
