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Posted on 01/09/2003 8:56:24 PM PST by an amused spectator
Ever tried to copy the text from an Adobe PDF document, in order to post some hot info on the Free Republic? I'll bet that you discovered that when you opened the document with your browser, you just couldn't close the deal when it came to selecting the text and copying it to the clipboard.
Here's the secret: download the PDF in question to your hard drive using 'Save Target As...'. Then, open the document directly from the save directory on your hard drive, or using the Adobe application. You'll be cutting and pasting in no time.
Further hot tip: Adobe 5, in addition to the 'select text' tool, has a 'graphical select' tool. You can use the GS tool to frame a page in the downloaded document, then copy the selected graphic to your clipboard. Open your Paint application, and paste the graphic into Paint.
You can then save the graphic as a JPG, GIF, or BMP (various flavors), and you'll have an exact copy of the page.
It's slicker than snot on a rock. Go nuts. ;-)
PDF is a great open standards format, and Adobe is about to extend it's usefulness with some major improvements to the standard.
Mac OS X operating system used PDF for nearly all interapplication data exchanges, including the clipboard, whether the application's native file format is PDF or not. Any printable document can be saved as a PDF document. Soon, it will be possible to fully edit PDF files without using Adobe software at all. When that happens, copying text and images from a PDF document will be a snap.
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