I don't know whether this will help, but have you tried VO-a followed by VO-Shift-c and then paste into another document? I haven't tried this myself.
Cheers, Anne On 8 Sep 2014, at 13:00, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm fairly sure this is a shot in the dark at this point, but I'm asking just > in case someone knows something I don't ... > > I've been trying in vain to export my books from iBooks in Mavericks, with > the objective of importing them into iTunes running on an installation using > Mountain Lion. From my web searches, I gather that dragging a book from > iBooks to a folder or the desktop will produce a copy of the book with its > original file name, instead of the new internal format used by iBooks after > conversion from iTunes on Mavericks. Unfortunately I have had no success > doing this; I can't use any VO technique and even physical mouse movement to > perform the drag operation. > > I'm going to spare you the rant about iBooks, what is symbolises for Apple's > accessibility commitment and the general direction of OS X, and how it > represents a downgrade for more than just blind users. > > Does anybody know of a keyboard way to perform this supposed export? There > are no menu commands--even Command-C Command-V don't work here (but Command-A > works, to select all). > > I've investigated the structure of the iBooks container. The filenames have > all been garbled, except for PDFs, and only some of the EPub books are > uncompressed while others are not. Some of the EPub files are self-imported > from iTunes, and were not bought on store. If there's no other option but to > try and redownload the books from their original source, I suppose I might be > able to parse these files looking for indications of where they came from, > and proceed accordingly. Still, I'd like to exhaust the other possibilities > first, if possible. > > Any help appreciated. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
