I have not upgraded to Maverick yet but in terms of your PDF question can answer some issues I think based on ML and Lion. Copying PDF text is viable but personally I would paste it into TextEdit rather than Pages. It may be that the new pages is different but in the old version I found it impossible to use the VO A read all command to read more than a page at a time. TextEdit does not have this limitation.
In terms of getting rid of hyphenation the easiest way to do this is to use a global find and replace. Just search for each instance of a hyphen and replace it with nothing. . A word of caution though is that I found copying large PDF documents using this message made my iNac unstable and it struggled to complete the task. I had a relatively high powered machine with 16 GB of ram so if that struggles it is probably not a recommended route. With any large PDF I would use a conversion method. The failsafe is to send it as an attachment to conv...@robobraille.org and get a text version back. Alternatively if you want an ePub book then send the PDF to e...@robobraille.org. The text results can then be edited in TextEdit or Pages but of course you lose formatting. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of William Lomas Sent: 31 October 2013 18:59 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Retaining formatting from a PDF when the text is pasted into pages Sent from my iPhone hello all, I have a PDF document, which is a course I'm undertaking. If I highlight all of the text in skim and copied into pages will the tables etc be preserved? Therefore, allowing me to read them using voice over commands? Also, some of the words are hyphenated for example the word author would be a you TH- Oh our space is this normal? How can I get rid of these hyphenated words? Many thanks for help I'm running the latest Mac operating system 10.9 <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
