Re: Copy/paste selection of a pdf on Mac
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- Subject: [mg99206] Re: Copy/paste selection of a pdf on Mac
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:42:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 26, 12:36 am, "A. B." <functionalcoati... at gmail.com> wrote: > I think this has more to do with Apple than Mathematica: > > - Select a portion of a pdf file in Preview.app and copy to the clipboard= , > - Paste in Mathematica. > > This results in the whole pdf page being pasted in Mathematica. Researchi= ng > on the web showed that this same behaviour was observed with Keynote at s= ome > point but it has since been fixed. > It has to do with a new so-called "non-destructive" way that Preview now > uses for cropping. The application where the pasting is done needs to be > made aware of this change on the part of Apple. Thus, on my 10.5.6 system= , > pasting works well with Pages and Keynote (iWork 9). > A workaround is to paste in one of these applications, copy the pdf image > and paste it in Mathematica. This works as expected. This is a previously unreported bug in Mathematica that has since been fixed for a future release. In the future I encourage you to report any suspected bugs in Mathematica to Wolfram Tech Support: http://support.wolfram.com/submitabug.= cgi -Rob, Wolfram Research