[OS X TeX] What is Copy and Paste in OS X?

[Bob Kerstetter]

On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 21:32 US/Central, Keith M. Chugg wrote:

> This is a little off-topic, but why doesn't copy-n-paste between 
> applications work the way it "should" in OSX?  Example, draw a diagram 
> in Omnigraffle, copy it and paste it into a Word document. When you 
> view/print this, the diagram is fuzzy as if you clipped it out of a 
> pdf document using Acrobat reader.
>

Since we're off topic anyway, Word does not work with anything else 
well, or so it appears. No services. No cut and paste. No useful HTML 
export. 31-character filename limits. Excessive resource eating. Poor 
behavior in its memory space.  But I deal with some marketplace 
realities that force the use of Word.

When going from OmniGraffle to Word, I export as PDF and then import 
the PDF image through Word's image include function. It seems to size a 
little better that way. Before sending the Word doc to my customer, I 
copy it via samba connection to a PC to strip off the resource fork 
then mail it on. What the customer receives is a Word doc with meta 
images.

Back on topic, the reason I am learning TeX-ish things is to replace 
Word as much as possible. (The same goes for replacing InDesign.) Since 
my customers do no editing, I am weaning them off Word docs and on to 
PDFs. I will probably never be able to just trash Word, but am having 
to use it less all of the time.


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