Since the Tahoe upgrade, Preview's text selection tool does not work or works so erratically as to be useless.
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Original Title: Preview's text selection tool
iMac 24″, macOS 26.0
It is working for me, too. I am using it constantly, and I cannot discern anything different compared to how it worked in Sequoia.
Just to be more precise: are you talking about pdf files that have actual text, or images of text?
If the latter, you may need to turn on "Live Text" in System Settings->General->Language & Region:
It is working for me, too. I am using it constantly, and I cannot discern anything different compared to how it worked in Sequoia.
Just to be more precise: are you talking about pdf files that have actual text, or images of text?
If the latter, you may need to turn on "Live Text" in System Settings->General->Language & Region:
You're welcome. There are a few issues with Preview in Tahoe 26.0.1. I would suggest using a different PDF viewer/editor such as Adobe Reader, PDFgear, Skim, etc., until Apple sorts them out.
I'm having the EXACT same issue since the Tahoe upgrade. I can replicate it on any PDF I open. Essentially the blue selection "highlight" that would usually appear as you select text in Preview doesn't appear. The text however is still "selected" and you can see the selection "highlight" appear when you click off of the preview window.
Let me know if you'd like me to upload a screen recording.
Thanks for your interest in this. Yes, I did and do have my Live Text option switched on. I may well be conflating causes here, but since the Tahoe update, Preview's text selection tool just isn't functioning normally. Prior to Tahoe, it would drag speedily over text in PDFs, highlighting the selection in light blue, until the selection is made. It would copy and paste efficiently into Pages (for example) with only minor errors over obscure type or symbols. Now, I drag the selection tool across the desired text. There is no highlighting to indicate the selection. I must click out of the PDF (into another app) to see the selected text but it is now blacked out with thick black bars. Successful copying and pasting is uncertain. Sometimes it works sometimes not. See the screenshot.
I sympathise. Those of us who work with text are hurting right now. That means mostly those of us in the Arts who love text; who love to select it and flow it into our own texts are held back. I can understand it's not a priority for tech. "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'till it's gone..."
Works fine for me. Can you explain further?
Preview's text selection tool not working after macOS Tahoe upgrade
