2 The Select Tool Saving as a PDF is a great way to archive documents,
especially webpages. However, the PDF file will contain everything
on the original page—images, toolbars, and all those annoying ads.
To clean up your PDFs a little, you can use the Select Tool to grab
just the portion you want. With the PDF open in Preview, go to
Tools > Select Tool (or use the Command- 3 keyboard shortcut).
The Select Tool will let you boil down a PDF to just the essentials.
3 Copying a Selection Click and drag on your PDF page to create a selection box.
You can alter its dimensions by using one of its corner handles or
even drag the whole box to another location. Once it’s over the
correct portion of your page, go to Edit > Copy. Pasting doesn’t work
in Preview. Instead, go to File > New From Clipboard (Command-N)
to create a new document that contains everything you just copied.
Just the good stuff, please!
4 Copying Text Preview also lets you copy text from
a PDF file to the clipboard, for pasting
words into the text-editing app of your
choice, with formatting intact: Just go to
Tools > Text Tool (Command- 2) and select
and copy text (Command-C) as normal.
But you can’t use Preview’s New From
Clipboard command here. Instead, open an
app like TextEdit and paste your selection
in (Command-V).
The New From Clipboard command is grayed out, but you can use the Text Tool to copy
and paste text into a word-wranglin’ app.
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