On 8/12/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have tried with all available pdf viewers, but the text is not > > copyable at all. Something seems to be wrong with the method 'print to > > ps + ps2pdf'. > > Let's try for a common target: > > Target: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org > > Methods: > 1 - cups-pdf. Produces copyable text in Adobe Reader > > 2 - LOOP extension for FF. Also produces copyable text > > 3 - Openoffice - text *is* copyable, but the formatting is horrible! > > 4 - I did 'select all' in FF, made a new OO doc, and pasted it in. > PDF export produces a file with copyable text, and decent formatting. > > In summary, I was able to produce a PDF w/copyable text using all four > methods. #3 looked like hell, but the text was there. Seems like #4 > ought to Just Work. I'm curious - can anyone can duplicate my > results? I went into further detail about each method previously. > > Chris > > PS - I've found that not all pages work with method #1 - on some pages > (gmail, e.g.), the text appears to be copyable, but it is in fact > copying gibberish to the clipboard. By gibberish, I mean those nice > little unicode character boxes that you see when your font can't do > UTF-8. Here is the pdf file that I obtain with method 1 (cups-pdf). Paul
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