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November 2, 2008
When Things That Should be Simple, Aren't...
Dawnise reads lots of craft sites - and quite often these sites have tutorials that she wants to preserve. In Windows, it was simple - drag-select the text and images in Firefox, copy, paste into Word (or WordPad, or some other rich text editor) and viola, the document, with formatting and images, in an offline form she could archive.
Turns out that on the Mac, this is what we in the business call a "pain in the ass."
Neither Safari nor Firefox seem to support copying mixed-text-and-images in a way that either TextEdit or OpenOffice can reconstitute. From safari you get formatting, but not images, and from Firefox you get neither formatting nor images.
I've spent the morning googling (finding threads like this, and bugs like this) and scanning Apple's pasteboard documentation (note to apple - "think different" shouldn't mean "choose gratuitously different names for things to make them harder to find"), and my conclusion is she's just screwed.
And to add insult to injury - it "just works" from Firefox to OpenOffice on linux (you know, linux, the os that's supposed to be harder to use than OS X or Windows.)
What the hell?!
UPDATE: It seems that Safari to TextEdit does work - at least sometimes.
Posted by dberger at November 2, 2008 10:42 AM
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I use Evernote for that kind of thing, mostly because it syncs with my phone (and any other computer I can access the web from), but she might find it useful too. Free, even.
Posted by: Hendel at November 2, 2008 5:47 PM