There are some differences in interface from mac to pc, but here is a shot --
with the text tool (looks like a "T") you can click and drag across the text
you want and then copy to the clipboard, or instead choose 'select all' that
will get all the text on the page.
you can then past in to your favorite email/word processor
with acrobat, an author can choose to have these functions disabled. This
seems not to be the case iwth the thibault article.
you can get the adobe 'plug in' from the adobe site that will make the article
appear within the browser window.
sorry to be so short,
bb
--- Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> Nate or someone else--
>
> Actually two questions spurred by my going to xmca to get the Thibault paper
> for discussion.
>
> 1) Somehow I cannot open the pdf file directly on the screen. I have to save
> it and use Adobe 4.0 from my desktop. This is true even for netscape 6.0
> browser. It seems that an updated Adobe utility needs to be there. Any way
> around that problem?
>
> 2) In starting a discussion of Thibault I wanted simply to copy the first
> two paragraphs which provide an excellent summary of the paper, but I could
> not copy from the pdf file and could not save in an interpretable way.
>
> Presumably discussion using the papers made available by Erlbaum for MCA
> would be helped if everyone could easily perform these two functions that
> I am unable to.
>
> Advise warmly encouraged!
> mike
>
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