Use PTHPasteboard to extract Safari text clippings

Feb 14, '03 10:00:44AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

There have been suggestions previously for getting text clippings out of Safari (which doesn't seem to support the usual text drag and drop). If PTHPasteboard (a really great freeware multiclipboard app) is installed, text which has been copied to the clipboard can be dragged from the PTHPasteboard pallette to the Finder to create a standard text clipping.

[Editor's note: You can, of course, substitute another clipboard app like CopyPaste+ and achieve the same results ... and the other workaround is to paste the text into a clipping-aware application then drag it from there. PTHPasteboard was a recent Pick of the Week, and it has quickly become a required utility on my machines...]

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