Thanks Ronni, I've been working from 4am to midnight too often lately, and need all the help I can get from my Mac!
Michael. On 17/9/09 8:08 AM, "Ronda Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Don't forget about improved Preview Application in Snow Leopard. > <http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/ >> > Select the text you want Copy & Paste into Text Edit, then File > > Print - Save as PDF. > > "Easy PDF text selection. > > Here¹s an enhancement that exemplifies the pursuit of perfection. When > using a PDF viewer such as Preview, have you ever tried to copy text > from a PDF document that has more than one column? It¹s almost > impossible. Instead of selecting only the text you want, your cursor > selects all the text across the page, so you end up with a mix of > words from every column. > > Mac OS X Snow Leopard applies sophisticated artificial intelligence > algorithms to fix the problem. It analyzes the layout of each page in > the PDF to identify columns of text. So when you use the cursor to > select text, you get only the words you want. That¹s a real time-saver." > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard > > > On 17/09/2009, at 6:36 AM, Bill Parker wrote: > >> >> Michael, >> >> The method is probably simpler than than might be expected. >> >> As long as the PDF is not locked/needing a password, just select >> the required text and drag it to the field in FM Pro 10 and drop. >> >> Do NOT cut and paste! >> >> Using the drag and drop method, the resultant font is always in the >> style you set up in FM no matter what the PDF font was. >> >> I have not tried transferring graphics or pictures but I have reason >> to suppose they would not behave the same way. >> >> If the PDFs are locked, you can use PDFPro key - another simple to >> use process. There are others to be found if you Google "unlock >> PDF" or sim. >> >> >> Bill >> >> >> On 17/09/2009, at 4:59 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: >> >>> >>> Is it possible to cut from documents in pdf format and paste into >>> FileMaker >>> Pro 10? >>> >>> Can any-one recommend software that is simple to master for this? >>> >>> I have Formulate Pro and PDF Studio, but they mystify me. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Michael Hawkins >>> MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo >>> $GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM >>> OS 10.6.1 >>> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
