…is that possibile?
With MacOS services or Popclip seems impossible
A few more details would be useful. As a start, if you select text in a PDF displayed in Adobe Acrobat, then you copy, can you paste into another app–for example an empty Scrivener Document? This is a simple test of macOS clipboard.
Also, for your information, creators of PDFs can set the security to prevent copying out content from the clipboard. Could this be preventing what you want to do?
first answer, yes
no secure setting
I simply wanted to add my copied element as a new clip to Scrivener
Well, if the first works, is that not a “clip”? I guess I don’t know what a “clip” is if it not a copy/paste from one app to another, e.g. “clipped”. What am I misunderstanding?
for Mac there is a so called “service” that allows with one click to send clip to your open Scrivener document
Certainly possible to clip from Apple’s Preview, which has Acrobat Reader features, and then paste it into any other proram including Scrivener. Spent my afternoon doing exactly that except I pasting into a ChatGPT browser window to get translations of a language textbook. Also used the same Preview feature to capture data from a poorly formated PDF file and process it with an awk script in a Terminal window.
One thing to surprised me was the language text included a graphic with artisticly drawn characters and Preview’s copy text feature picked those out correctly.
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Preview doesn’t allow Apple services…
The Services menu populates in Preview. What do you mean?
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My experience is that if -in a Preview PDF- you select some text and right click the contestual service menu doesn’t appear at all… Hope that I am wrong!
I’ve never noticed that but then I don’t use Services… at all and much prefer to “type” ⌘C and ⌘V because I touchtype rather than press mouse buttons. (When I switched to Macs way back when I found the description of Services highly confusing so never bothered to experiment or research them more.)
Section 9.3 in the (Mac) manual discusses the available Services in more detail, including suggestions in case they don’t work.