Copy and pasting from the game manual

VEX Robotics Competition Discussion VRC > Starstruck (16/17)
#1

I’d love to have a PDF that is easier to copy and paste text from. It would be easier to share the text of specific rules with other people, and easier to copy/paste a rule into an official Q&A forum question. I wonder if there is another way the PDF can be generated to make this more convenient. Right now the game manual text will paste something like this…

Low Hanging
–
A
Robot
is considered to be
Low
Hanging
if it is touching the
Hanging
Bar
of its own
color and not touching any foam field tiles. Note: Only one (1)
Alliance Robot
can earn points for
Hanging
(
High
or
Low
) during a
M
atch
.

#2

That shouldn’t be happening. What software do you use to view this PDF?

#3

I hadn’t considered that it was the viewer’s problem. I think you are right about it though. For the above example I was viewing the PDF in Firefox and copied and pasted from there. The example here I copied and pasted from Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Thank you! That saves me some headaches. I can’t believe my normal workflow always had me pasting from a reader that broke up my text.

#4