That will work fine for small documents, but for ones with hundreds of pages, Preview will stay busy for a very long time. The automator solution will take a second or less. I tried it will around 300 pages and it exported instantly. It’s a shame that we can’t at least select an individual page rather than the entire document. Then the open selected in textedit service would work great.
On Mar 31, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: Chris, when you open a pdf in preview, the default pdf viewer, you need to interact twice in the pdf content group. then you can VO arrow up and down through the text, or select the entire text with command-A. Just copy and paste into a textedit window and you have it. As to setting up text edit as a choice in services, go to system prefs and the keyboard pane. select the shortcuts tab, and then select services in the categories table. In the shortcuts table, arrow down to the text category and then further down to “"new textedit window with selection”, . and Make sure it is checked. Now “new textedit window with selection” should show up as an option in the services menu. I think if you don’t have anything selected, you won’t see that option - have to select something first. BTW: the text category is way down the list and its easier to just jump to the bottom of the table and move back up until you hit “new textedit window with selection”. > On Mar 31, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The subject says it all. > When in the pdf viewer, how do I select text? I tried cmd+a which didn’t do > anything. > > The next question is how to add textedit to the services menu in pdf viewer? > > TIA > Chris > > -- > 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. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- 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.
