Re: Copying text from a PDF (Was: Re: Reply message format)

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:30:51 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > I guess you're just so much more sophisticated than I am, but I can't
> > copy and paste text out of a .pdf. You'll just have to look it up for
> > yourself.
>
> Just to be sure of what I suspected, I opened the PDF file of the Preface
> to the Unicode Standard, and copied some text from the screen. I used the
> Text Selector tool

"Text Selector tool"?

Why did software stop coming with manuals?

If you don't know something is supposed to be able to do something, how
do you know to look for that capability?

(And how are you supposed to figure out which label the engineers put on
the function you're looking for? It was entirely accidentally that I was
able to find out how to do an overstrike in Word2001.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...