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Use TextEdit Services rather than copy/paste
Authored by: jmil on Apr 01, '02 10:50:36PM

I agree that .textClippings need to be implemented better. However, in applications that have services enabled, you may be happy to find out that TextEdit has services that come along with it.

Select text and/or graphics in OmniWeb
Select OmniWeb -> Services -> TextEdit -> Open Selection

It will create a new document with the text and graphics displayed exactly as they were on the webpage. This is great. Services need to be emphasized more. The document will be saved as .rtfd (a package with the images hidden inside)! Fantastic. Unfortunately, "Open File" doesn't seem to work for me. I guess you are supposed to use it from the Finder, but the Finder doesn't have services enabled on my 10.1.3 machine. Ugh. Although services do work in SNAX (the alternative to finder.app), the TextEdit Open File service doesn't work correctly for textClippings (I
just get a blank document). Please let Apple know of these inconsistencies. I'm looking forward for 10.2.



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