On 10/26/18 at 1:55 PM, [email protected] (bo) wrote:
I also tried to see if BBEdi would open or import the PDF file
more natively, but thePDF files all looked greyed out, (not selectable).
Since PDF is a binary file format, you must use an application
which understands that format (such as Preview.app or Adobe
Reader) to display and/or extract the contents of any PDF file,
as BBEdit is not capable of doing so on its own.
[Short take: BBEdit is a text editor, not a PDF viewer. :-) ]
However, once you have extracted content from a PDF file, you
can then transfer that content to another app.
For instance, if you have a PDF which contains text, you can
open that PDF in Preview.app, then select & copy some (or all)
of its contents, and paste the copied text into a BBEdit document.
Regards,
Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>
[PS: If memory serves me correctly, there used to be a system
service one could invoke via AppleScript or Automator to extract
text from PDF files but I'm not sure whether that's still the case.]
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