Preview - copied images are black

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Preview - copied images are black

When I use the select tool in Preview to select text or a portion of a document, graphic or text to copy, when I paste that selection in another document, the pasted text block or image is black. I changed background color in Preview to white but that did not help. Any ideas anyone?
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Posted on Mar 21, 2009 12:39 PM

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Answer 1

John James1 Author

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Mar 22, 2009 3:38 PM in response to John James1

It's a pdf file someone sent me. I am trying to paste in word 2004. It did work pasting the graphic into Text edit. Thanks ⚠ for that. But When I try to copy it from text edit, it will not paste or copy into word.

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John James1 Author

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Mar 22, 2009 4:06 PM in response to John James1

After I saved the text Edit file, I had copied the graphic into, i was able to drag/copy the sectin into Word.

But that does not address the general problem I have of trying to copy text or a graphic from a pdf document into word2004 and having the pasted item be all black.

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Limnos

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Mar 23, 2009 11:04 AM in response to John James1

Pasting text with text tool appears black on white. Pasting an area selected with the select tool produces the correct image except the background is black in Word, but is white when pasted into a TextEdit document. This appears to be some incompatibility between Word and Preview when using the select tool. I did the same exercise using Adobe Reader's (8.1.2) snapshot tool and the pasted image in Word does appear with a white background.

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BDAqua

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Mar 23, 2009 1:32 PM in response to John James1

I think the difference is because in TIFFs, PCs & Macs use 0 & 1 opposite for B&W, and the Alpha Channel Mask.

When I pasted a Preview Copy of mixed text & Picture into Graphic Converter, the Picture was good, but the text was black on black... Flattened the Alpha Channel Mask and the text showed perfectly, black on white.

Selecting All & copying in Graphic Converter then pasted correctly into NeoOffice, which the previous pasting from Preview was black text on black.

Word most likely would work the same.

GraphicConverter...

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/263

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