Moderated Re: unable to copy text from pdf in edge, chrome, or even adobe dc


Bill White
 

Hi again, Steve and list. After some research, I don't believe that the Virtual Cursor Options settings setting is causing mike mcglashon's problem with being unable to select and copy text from pdf documents. My reason for saying this is that the "Virtual Cursor Options" setting is not available in Adobe Acrobat DC, and Mike is having trouble selecting and copying text in this application as well as in Edge and Chrome.

 

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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 2:11 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: unable to copy text from pdf in edge, chrome, or even adobe dc

 

Hi,

 

I suggest a quick look at this:-

 

https://doccenter.freedomscientific.com/doccenter/doccenter/rs11f929e9c511/2014-12-02_webpagetesting-l1/02_JAWS-Settings.htm

 

Specifically, change the way JAWS selects and copies text to the clipboard. Search for the word Select in JAWS settings.

 

All the best

 

Steve

 

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: 16 February 2022 16:06
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Subject: Re: unable to copy text from pdf in edge, chrome, or even adobe dc

 

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 05:10 PM, Curtis Chong wrote:

maybe it's protected and is not authorized to be copied.

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I just wanted to second this.  It is not at all uncommon for PDFs to be protected such that they cannot be copied.  I used to be a member of a car club that had a very large membership directory that it sent out as a PDF, but a protected PDF, so that it was not easy (at that time, anyway) for someone to just use it via copy or even to read it outside a PDF viewer to create a mailing database out of it.

These days, because MS-Word can open PDF files natively, with very minimal loss of formatting, converting them to Word format in the process this strategy is less effective.  I haven't tried to open a protected PDF in Word recently, so it's possible that Word may honor that designation if the source file has it and refuse to open it.
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