blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:13:42 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> blake murphy > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:43:07 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:
>>
>>>>> sf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I looked up Jacques Pepin. It's a 49 recipe pdf. No thanks.
>>
>>>> And if you don't want 49, I don't think it's rocket science to
>>>> extract just the ones you want, and print or file those.
>>>
>>> the .pdfs i've seen are resistant to cut and paste. do you have a
>>> good method?
>>
>> Well, I *thought* I did. I use a Mac. pdf files open with an Apple
>> application. In the FILE menu, there is a GRAB command, with a
>> SELECTION option. Grab what you want, and it opens in a little
>> window. You can then do a standard COPY, and then PASTE it where you
>> want. But it's a graphic, not text. Still, you can save it or
>> print it.
>>
>> So, no Acrobat Reader on this machine. Went in the living room to
>> the Mac there. Opened up Acrobat Reader v5.0. No menu item. Looked
>> harder. The tool bar has a Text tool. I could copy and paste text
>> with it. There's also another tool that works like the GRAB.
>>
>> Went back to this machine. I'll be darned! A tool bar with both a
>> text tool and the other!
>>
>> So, it's not perfect. The text doesn't preserve the formatting, and
>> the graphics doesn't let you edit the text.
>
> o.k. i'll take another look at the tools available in acrobat next
> time.


It's pretty "bare bones" but it's better than nothing...


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Greg