Hello Nick, I’ve just tried the selecting and copying in Preview and it’s very strange. I tried with two different files: one downloaded from the internet and copying with VO-Return navigating through the text, then VO-Return again and Cmd-c worked fine, as did VO-a and copying the whole file; however, with the PDF file About Stacks which goes back to Snow Leopard, the copy appeared to work, but all I copied was an image! In Preview, VoiceOver could read both files.
Cheers, Anne > On 24 Oct 2014, at 05:50, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi list, > > Am I right that selecting text in Preview no longer works, or no longer works > as well, in Yosemite? I was just getting used to doing it in Mavericks with > VO-return, and now it seems to be broken. > > Open a text-based PDF in Preview; > Press VO-return to start selection; > Use VO keys to navigate by word or line to choose which text is selected; > Whether you now press command-c, or first stop selecting with VO-return and > then press command-c, the system plays an error sound and nothing is copied > to clipboard. Using VO-F6 VoiceOver announces that one word is selected, not > the desired text. > > This is a shame as selecting text previously worked so well. I do love the > search feature in Preview, however. Not sure if it is new to Yosemite, as I > never tried it before. One of the cool things about the Preview search > feature rather than using VO-f is that the Preview search feature announces > on what page each of the search results is. This can be great for > citation/referencing purposes. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
