On Oct 11, 2009, at 5:02 PM, James Howison wrote:
On Oct 11, 2009, at 17:59, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
On Oct 11, 2009, at 23:09, Cloy Tobola wrote:
When copying text from Skim to another application, I'm finding
that spaces between words are frequently removed.
The same thing does NOT occur when copying from the same file using
some other PDF-reader applications. Here are some examples:
Text copied from Skim:
Oneofthemost commerciallysuccessful movies ofall times
wasStevenSpielberg'sJurassicPark. Inthismovie,anenterpris-
ingentrepreneur discovers awaytousetheDNAfromancient
Same text (from the same document) opened in Acrobat Pro v7:
One of the most commercially successful movies of all times
was Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. In this movie,an enterprising
entrepreneur discovers a way to use the DNA from ancient
Same text (from the same document) opened in Acrobat Reader v9:
One of the most commercially successful movies of all times
was Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. In this movie,an enterprising
entrepreneur discovers a way to use the DNA from ancient
As far as I can tell, the problem DOES occur when using Mac Preview.
Is there a workaround for this?
Thanks!
Copying text is done by Apple's PDFKit, so it will be the same in
any PDFKit based app, including Preview. AFAIK it just copies the
selected text as it exists in the PDF, which may not contain the
spaces. There's no workaround for this.
Sounds like a bug worth reporting to Apple, Cloy; I've seen it too.
Report it on Preview.app and who knows, maybe one day they'll figure
it out, as Acrobat as done, and it will propagate to Skim.app.
--J
On the positive side... as far as I can tell, the problem only occurs
on files that were scanned as images and then converted to text (via
OCR in Acrobat Pro).
PDFs that were generated from the original files (e.g., Word) don't
seem to have this problem.
-c
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