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.
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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
Not only does copying and pasting not work in Preview any more, but it doesn’t
work either in PDF Pen Pro.
Gigi
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Nicholas Parsons
> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> Am I right that selecting text in Preview no longer works, or no longer works
> as well, in Yosemite?
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
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 s
Hello Nick,
I’ve just tried the selecting and copying in Preview and it’s very strange. I
tried with two different files: one downloaded from the internet and copying
with VO-Return navigating through the text, then VO-Return again and Cmd-c
worked fine, as did VO-a and copying the whole file;
Hi list,
Am I right that selecting text in Preview no longer works, or no longer works
as well, in Yosemite? I was just getting used to doing it in Mavericks with
VO-return, and now it seems to be broken.
Open a text-based PDF in Preview;
Press VO-return to start selection;
Use VO keys to navig
