garbled text when copying and pasting...

[ryans79]

Hello!

Im kind of getting used to my new (second hand) Mac, although as a long time windows user some things still do puzzle me, thanks to this place though the list is getting smaller as they days go by

Having a strange problem, while waitin for my hardcopy of "beginning iphone development" I am using the "pdf version", problem is when i copy and paste text from the pdf file into either textedit or xcode, i get garbled text.

Heres and example, from the PDF, I shall copy and paste
The default implementation of this method looks at interfaceOrientation and

this is the actual paste, no edits:
8LI#HIJEYPX#MQTPIQIRXEXMSR#SJ#XLMW#QIXLSH#PSSOW#EX#MRXIVJEGI3VMIRXEXMSR#ERH#

Furthermore, some text just does not paste at all, i get the paste option but when i click it... nothing happens...

Any ideas whats going on?

°°

 

[mogallin]

Looks to me like what you computer is doing is copying the text as it is represented binary, with additions for formatations which the target program can't read. Don't know why it's doing it or how to solve it though.

 

[angelwatt]

You might want to see if there's an option to paste (or copy) as plain text. Without seeing the PDF it's hard to say for certain. Could be a binary issue or it could be a text encoding issue.

 

[ryans79]

Thanks for replying guys.
I wouldnt mind uploading the page... but i dont know if its ever possible to upload just a page, and i cant find the address to where i downloaded the whole book

 

[angelwatt]

A quick way to extract a page is to open the PDF in Preview and go to print it and tell it to do only the one page, then print as PDF.

 

[ryans79]

That... i know, I meant post it in its original form here so you more experienced guys would know what to do, im just beginning to get the hang of the Mac, while you guys are more like (no disrespect meant) Mac-heads
so if anyone figures this out, its likely to be you.