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Highlight Text in 2-column PDF

Category: Computer
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When reading a PDF with multiple columns of text, sometimes I want to copy some text that spans more than one line. Preview and Acrobat Reader cannot do this right!! With two columns, the selected text will span BOTH columns of the document and end up concatenating the sentences from COLUMN-1 and COLUMN-B, clearly not what you want.

HOW MANY YEARS OF WORD PROCESSING AND WE STILL CANNOT COPY PASTE TEXT!?

ds, Apr 19 2009

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