Drag and drop not working? - Page 2

BetterRed · 12-12-2025, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Not sure why. It works fine for me. From the Advanced section of the user guide:
<snip>

FYI - copying text from Readium on a Windows 10+Firefox platform has never worked for me. Works fine in other Windows browsers: e.g. Chrome and Edge.

Another reason for me to swap Edge & Firefox as my primary & secondary browsers.

BR

DiapDealer · 12-12-2025, 02:06 PM

Well that's just weird.

theducks · 12-13-2025, 11:11 AM

BR

What method for Copy and/or paste do you use that fails?
I find that some place keystrokes don't work and others the context menu (I use this way a lot) fails.

BetterRed · 12-13-2025, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

BR

What method for Copy and/or paste do you use that fails?
I find that some place keystrokes don't work and others the context menu (I use this way a lot) fails.

Every way I know. I just wanted to let DD know that @seanos is not the only person who can't copy text from the online Sigil manual.

DiapDealer · 12-14-2025, 07:21 PM

Not sure why Firefox has a problem with copying text from the manual in Readium's Cloud Reader Light.

DNSB · 12-15-2025, 01:32 AM

For what it may be worth, I tried 5 different web page to epub tools and only one of them came up with any content. A couple failed quietly, the 2 others generated everything from a simple no visible content error to multiple pages of complaints and the last actually downloaded an almost complete but unusable copy (image sizes were all over the place for the most noticeable issue).

DiapDealer · 12-15-2025, 11:02 AM

I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that the text is rendered via javascript within a div. There is no actual text when viewing the source of the page. It's the same on Chromium and Edge, though, so I've still no idea why they're ok with it while Firefox isn't. It's not Readium trying to protect content--of that I'm sure. There is no content protection with Cloud-Reader-Lite.

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12-12-2025, 02:06 PM	#17
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,970 Karma: 208569852 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Well that's just weird.

12-13-2025, 11:11 AM	#18
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,364 Karma: 62500000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	BR What method for Copy and/or paste do you use that fails? I find that some place keystrokes don't work and others the context menu (I use this way a lot) fails.

12-14-2025, 07:21 PM	#20
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,970 Karma: 208569852 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Not sure why Firefox has a problem with copying text from the manual in Readium's Cloud Reader Light.

12-15-2025, 01:32 AM	#21
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 48,992 Karma: 174631584 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For what it may be worth, I tried 5 different web page to epub tools and only one of them came up with any content. A couple failed quietly, the 2 others generated everything from a simple no visible content error to multiple pages of complaints and the last actually downloaded an almost complete but unusable copy (image sizes were all over the place for the most noticeable issue).

12-15-2025, 11:02 AM	#22
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,970 Karma: 208569852 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that the text is rendered via javascript within a div. There is no actual text when viewing the source of the page. It's the same on Chromium and Edge, though, so I've still no idea why they're ok with it while Firefox isn't. It's not Readium trying to protect content--of that I'm sure. There is no content protection with Cloud-Reader-Lite.