You need to interact with the scroll area in Preview with VO-Shift-down and then you can copy.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Edmondson Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:44 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: reading pdfs question I did try doing that as my first option as I thought that would be the easiest and quickest way of reading in an accessible way, but it wouldn't select and thus copy etc. On 29 Dec 2011, at 03:03, Marcia Yale wrote: > I don't like Preview much, either. If you have a high comfort level > with a word processor like Pages or TextEdit, you could always hit > Command-a to select all the text when in Preview and paste it into that other program. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten > Edmondson > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:53 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: reading pdfs question > > Hi, > Is there an easy way to read PDFs on my Mac? I use the preview thing > it tries to open them in but I can only read small sections and it > seems to want to read them all in one go. I used to use fine reader > and make them into word docs (on windows machines) so I will prob buy > that soon for the Mac, but in the mean-time is there a free/cheap and > quick way of reading PDF files on the Mac? > Thanks. > Kirsten. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
