When I copy a page from a pdf and try to paste it onto a textedit page I get a big black dot in front of each new line of text, or in between lines of text. How do I fix it, or replace textedit app.?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.6
Also, any way to delete existing TextEdit and download new one?
No, requires a complete OS reinstall to get a new Text Edit.
Copy the Text that nerds be in RTF style & paste int a new Text Edit doc.
Also, any way to delete existing TextEdit and download new one?
No, requires a complete OS reinstall to get a new Text Edit.
Copy the Text that nerds be in RTF style & paste int a new Text Edit doc.
Hmmm, looks like they prefer PDF..
File guidelines
Manuscript
To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...
Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.
Does it work in the new account?
Thanks for responding. That idea scares me. I'm not all that tech savvy. I tried opening a new rtf file and copy/pasting a couple of chapters into it from the PDF - one page at a time to avoid having the file change to RTFD because I'm trying to publish in Amazon and it won't take an RTFD file. It worked. No black dots. So, I'm thinking the black dots only start showing up after the RTF reaches a certain length. Then I tried copying the first RTF and pasting it in a page above what I had written in the second RTF. Everything from the first RTF had black dots when pasted above the existing text in the second RTF, but everything in the second RTF below what I pasted did not have black dots.
Do you know of any way to convert a PDF file to RTF form?
Part 1 - Thanks for responding. That idea scares me. I'm not all that tech savvy. I tried opening a new rtf file and copy/pasting a couple of chapters into it from the PDF - one page at a time to avoid having the file change to RTFD because I'm trying to publish in Amazon and it won't take an RTFD file. It worked. No black dots. So, I'm thinking the black dots only start showing up after the RTF reaches a certain length. (see part 2)
Part 2 - Next I copied the pages of the 1st RTF and pasted them one page before the the existing pages in the 2d RTF. The pasted pages all had black dots, but the pages that were already in the 2d RTF didn't. ??? Two questions - is there a way to convert a PDF to RTF, and is there a way to delete my current Mac TextEdit and download a new one? Thanks.
I want to convert the existing PDF of my book into RTF format so I can upload the RTF to Amazon in order for them to produce my book in eBook format (they currently have it in PDF format for paperback).
They require a PDF of the book in order to produce a paperback version, and an RTF (but not an RTFD) of the book in order to produce an eBook version. I already uploaded the PDF - now I need to upload an RTF. (Yes, I originally wrote it in RTF and converted it to PDF, but lost the RTF so I need now to convert the RTF back to PDF). Also, any way to delete existing TextEdit and download new one?
FYI - I copied the entire PDF one more time - in one click - and pasted it all in one click to a new RTF, and for some strange reason it came out intact, not in RTFD form, and with no black dots. Go figure. Now I am going through the RTF and cleaning it up for eBook publication. So far, so good. Thank you for taking the time and effort to work with me on this.
convert a PDF file to RTF form?
??? PDF to RTF, or RTF to PDF?
I mean "I need now to convert the PDF back to RTF". Sorry about that.
Did I lose you?
Great to hear, good luck my friend. :)
My textedit is not working right. How do I fix or replace it?
