[macvoiceover] Re: Copying text from a website in Safari

  • From: Ignasi Cambra <ic4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "<macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 20:26:43 +0000

You can export to PDF from any application on OS X by opening the print dialog 
and just printing to PDF. It works very well, and files created in this way are 
accessible when opened with preview.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I’ve been playing aroudn a bit with the function to export as pdf in Safari. 
> For some things I do regularly it seems to do a nice job of stripping out 
> extraneous links and other content leaving just the text. You still need to 
> copy and paste from Preview once you open the pdf there, but it seems pretty 
> helpful.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Ian
> 
>> On Oct 2, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Judy Wilkinson <jwilkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Also after “select all” doesn’t one need to do the copy command before 
>> pasting?
>> Judy
>>    
>>> On Oct 1, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> John, can you give some steps for activating the service you mentioned, I’m 
>>> having trouble finding the process. Of course now that I ask it will appear 
>>> to me.
>>> 
>>> Ian
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 1, 2014, at 7:11 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Command-a will select everything.  This includes links and such.  Then 
>>>> just paste it into a document.  You can also activate a service that will 
>>>> create a new Text Edit document from a selected webpage.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>>> On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Judy Wilkinson <jwilkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> How do I “select” all the text on a website to copy to Text Edit?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Judy
>>>>> 
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