how do I copy texts including graphics into a text editor such as text edit or notes? (It is default with Safari, does not seem to work wiht Opera or Firefox
also copying graphics individually does not seem to work
the process of pasting takes long and the result is as if I used paste and match style in safari i.e. without the graphics
basically the advantage of quick browsing is lost that way and I will likely revert to Safari with its terrible add burden
Chosen solution
It does work with libreoffice - albeit with about 700 MB more in applications plus long import times. But the problem is solved.
Thank you Jscher2000
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I don't think notes or text edit will use graphics. The only program I done that with was Office Word that can place graphics into the document. Even if you copy a web page you only get the txt no graphics that is something you must copy save or import into the txt where it gone when you copy it. What your asking is something like Acrobat Pro that will make a web page into pdf with everything on the page converted.
Thanks for the answer WestEnd. But: Yes Textedit does do graphics. Insert one into an RTF file and It asks to convert to RTFD format (and warns about incompatiblity with some applications). Locally the RTFD files work fine.
regards
libertix
I should mention that I'm a Windows person, so I'm not familiar with TextEdit.
What method are you using to copy/paste from Firefox or Opera to other applications? For example, select all in a page, copy, then click in a new document in TextEdit and paste? What happens?
When you copy in Firefox (at least on Windows), it puts multiple formats on the clipboard, primarily plain text and HTML. When the HTML is pasted into an HTML-aware application, the application retrieves the images directly using the links in the original page (if possible). Some applications have a "Paste Special" feature to choose the format you want from the clipboard, or have a choice between original formatting and document formatting.
If you want to try a word processing application instead, both the OpenOffice and LibreOffice suites are free.
Alternately, you can save the page with the images embedded using this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/save-page-we/
Thank you Jscher2000 for the detailed answer, but I am still not quite where I need to be.
Yes I can produce a single HTML file, but in the TextEdit approach I could edit and hence built my compound document e.g. with all info regarding a certain investment almost regardless of format. Somehow the TextEdit understands the graphic (maybe HTML) info when it comes from Safari but not when it comes from Mozilla.
Maybe I have to use a word-processor now, but these programs are so powerful or complicated and TextEdit was a slim solution.
So it seems either suffer Safari (they opened a war on ad-blockers and now I and my performance are drowning in less than useless ads) or change more than the Browser.
So thanks again and a merry Boxing day.
LIbertix
Chosen Solution
It does work with libreoffice - albeit with about 700 MB more in applications plus long import times. But the problem is solved.
Thank you Jscher2000