How to copy and paste text from an image

#How to copy and paste text from an image for mac

If I first paste into ID and then paste out of iClip, itвЂ™s a PNG. After I paste the text into InDesign as a PNG, I can still edit the text in iClip, which will then allow me to paste the text as text.

I use iClip, which allows me to edit the copied text on the clipboard. (I used the same workflow for my brochure designs in both versions.) This was not a problem before I installed CS5 on my Mac.

I donвЂ™t know if an update on either software could have affected it, or maybe, as you wrote, itвЂ™s the OS. IвЂ™m not sure whatвЂ™s going on as I never had this problem with CS4 and Word 2008, but I do with those now. At least I now know IвЂ™m not completely insane ? or IвЂ™m at least not alone in my insanity. Thanks for the fast and complete reply, David. Or was it my long-overdue upgrade to Snow Leopard? No, it appears to be problematic in 10.5.8, too. Why the change? Was it Word? I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s version CS5, as this happens to me in CS4, too. So you would need to go back to Word and select the text again.) I think that when you paste the first time, the clipboard gets вЂњsolidifiedвЂќ into a graphic form and wonвЂ™t change back. (Unfortunately, if you paste once and get a graphic, and then create a text frame and paste into it, you still get a graphic. If you create a text frame and paste into it, you get normal text. However, I have discovered a workaround: If you paste with nothing selected in InDesign, you get an image of text. You know, this started happening to me, too! Honestly, IвЂ™m not sure when it started. I cannot seem to get around this, and the Paste without Formatting option is grayed out.В IвЂ™ve used InDesign since 2003, and IвЂ™ve never seen this, especially since itвЂ™s just text, not a graphic, in Word. When I do, the text comes in as an image, not editable text.

#How to copy and paste text from an image for mac

IвЂ™m trying to paste text from Word 2008 for Mac into InDesign CS5.