I really, really wanted Preview to replace Acrobat Reader IN Panther since version 6 of Acrobat is so slow. Yes, version 5 works fine and is fast when rendering, but I have grown addicted to the incredibly useful (and ironically, fast) contextual find in version 6. Anyway, Pather's Preview was going to be the best of both worlds, so I stumbled along until this week.
I had a moment of panic during my first session with Pather's Preview, because the text select tool didn't handle a multi-column document properly. It selected lines across columns, instead of staying within them. Reader has a separate tool button to do this kind of selection that Preview didn't have.
But, I was pleasantly surprised when Option-drag duplicated this behavior! Sure enough, the Preview help documents this behavior. Option-drag will also potentially preserve line breaks in a 'normal' text flow, in case you want them retained in your copy/paste.
I had a moment of panic during my first session with Pather's Preview, because the text select tool didn't handle a multi-column document properly. It selected lines across columns, instead of staying within them. Reader has a separate tool button to do this kind of selection that Preview didn't have.
But, I was pleasantly surprised when Option-drag duplicated this behavior! Sure enough, the Preview help documents this behavior. Option-drag will also potentially preserve line breaks in a 'normal' text flow, in case you want them retained in your copy/paste.
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