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From: Salmon Egg on 11 Jan 2010 13:34 I ran into some different behavior using Preview and Adobe Reader for the same pdf file. It would be easiest to explain if I could attach screen shots or Excel spreadsheets. I do not wish to abuse this newsgroup. What are the rules for such attachments? I preferred the American Heritage Talking Dictionary to the Merriam Webster dictionary for that I am doing now. The former does not work with OSX but worked nicely with OS9. For puzzle solving I often use wild card searches. For example, I searched using h??t. With American Heritage, I could just copy the results to the clipboard and be able to paste them directly into a spreadsheet. With Merriam, I cannot do so. I "print" the results. Then I save the results as a pdf file before any real printing takes place. When I opened this file, it originally opened in Preview. It opens in a window with the results in a column. I copy this column. When I paste into an Excel spreadsheet. The results did not paste properly. It tended to paste two rows next to each other in one cell. Is this something that should be expected from Preview? When I opened the same file using Adobe reader and did the same thing, the paste was as I expected to be. It duplicated the column in an Excel column with only a single item in a cell. As a consequence of such things, I have made Adobe Reader the default application for opening pdf files. Bill -- An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: Nick Naym on 11 Jan 2010 13:46
In article SalmonEgg-258D5A.10342511012010(a)news60.forteinc.com, Salmon Egg at SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net wrote on 1/11/10 1:34 PM: > I ran into some different behavior using Preview and Adobe Reader for > the same pdf file. It would be easiest to explain if I could attach > screen shots or Excel spreadsheets. I do not wish to abuse this > newsgroup. What are the rules for such attachments? Consider uploading your images to ImageShack (<http://imageshack.us/>) and including the links in your post. > I preferred the American Heritage Talking Dictionary to the Merriam > Webster dictionary for that I am doing now. The former does not work > with OSX but worked nicely with OS9. For puzzle solving I often use wild > card searches. For example, I searched using h??t. > > With American Heritage, I could just copy the results to the clipboard > and be able to paste them directly into a spreadsheet. With Merriam, I > cannot do so. I "print" the results. Then I save the results as a pdf > file before any real printing takes place. > > When I opened this file, it originally opened in Preview. It opens in a > window with the results in a column. I copy this column. When I paste > into an Excel spreadsheet. The results did not paste properly. It tended > to paste two rows next to each other in one cell. Is this something that > should be expected from Preview? > > When I opened the same file using Adobe reader and did the same thing, > the paste was as I expected to be. It duplicated the column in an Excel > column with only a single item in a cell. As a consequence of such > things, I have made Adobe Reader the default application for opening pdf > files. I can't comment on your specific issue, but I can tell you the obvious: Preview ain't Adobe. How Preview handles PDF files is not the same as how Adobe (Reader or Acrobat) handles them. -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8) |