Issue with Preview when using rectangular selection
Command+copy and manual selection of copy from dropdown list is cropping the image instead of copying.
Unable to resolve. Please help
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Interestingly each time I have the keyboard viewer visible the issue does not happen. However the one time that I did not have it visible the same issue happened.
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Hi shanmarie1103,
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities. It sounds like you are trying to copy text but instead it is copying as a graphic image, is that correct? Is this happening in PDF's with preview? If so, please check out the links to the Preview User Guide we've provided below for this specific issue. If not, please provide additional details and we'll be happy to see if we can help out further!
Select and copy text in a PDF in Preview on Mac
If you can’t select or copy text in a PDF in Preview on Mac
Cheers!
Thank you for the reply. I'm actually attempting to copy an image from a PDF in Preview. I'll provide more detail
Using the rectangular selection tool in Preview I select the image that I want to copy
Once the image is selected:
1) "crop" automatically shows up in the markup toolbar (Crop is not usually present in the markup toolbar)
2) I attempt to copy by command+c or selecting copy in the dropdown with the cursor
The result is that the image I selected is cropped instead of copied. This does not occur 100% of the time. And it does not matter if I use a command function to copy or manually select copy from the dropdown. It's almost as if "copy" functions as "crop" in Preview. This does not happen in other programs.
Hopefully that clears any confusion from my original post.
I cannot get that to happen in Preview after a dozen tries or so, what happens if you double click to highlight the whole image then do a CMD+c.. crop doesn't show under those circumstances.
Open Keyboard Viewer, when this happens for you does the K key highlight when you CMD+c ?
If I double click to highlight the image, then do CMD+C, crop does not show up under those circumstances. Thanks for the work around.
However, that doesn't resolve the issue of needing to copy tables and the like.
I'll have to update on what happens when I open keyboard viewer. So far today I have not had any issues. Only a matter of time before it happens again.
Command+c shortcut cropping instead of copying in preview
