[Coco] OT: PDF Was: Upgrading a CoCo 1 to 64K

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

Art, if you are talking about just lifting a text segment, you can copy 
(using the tools in Reader) a highlighted portion and then just paste 
it into whatever you are working on.  I use that all the time to put 
verbatim quotes in my reports.  You might have to reformat the font, 
but it works fine.  I've also used the copy and paste method for 
graphics (and photos in pdfs, as well) but when they are protected, I 
have to open them in Preview on the Mac first  to lift the copy (Reader 
won't let you copy the password protected stuff, but Preview ignores 
the protection).

On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at 01:32  AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Speaking of which, I just ran into a situation where it would have been
> convenient to have been able to capture some text in a PDF file to the
> clipboard.  (A software routine that I wound up having to type in 
> manually.)
> Is there some way to do this?  (Short of printing out the page, 
> scanning it, and
> doing OCR, I mean.)
>
> Art
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Benoit Bleau wrote:
>
>>
>> jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>>
>>> Benoit
>>>
>>> I have pdf distiller installed and can convert to PDF.
>>>
>>> Since I am on DSL no file is to big for me.
>>>
>>> james
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I just noticed that adobe Photoshop CS can do pdf files...   I'm still
>> very new at this stuff. Brand new scanner :D
>> However, it appears that the pdf files are 4-5 times larger than 
>> jpegs...
>>
>>
>> I'm lucky too, I also have DSL. The jpeg files are about 1.2 meg 
>> total,
>> not too big.  I'm also going to try OCR, to see what happens...
>>
>> I for got to mention that the article in question comes from the Hot
>> Coco magazine,  July  1983...
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>>
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