On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 13:01 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: > On 8/12/07, Paul Smith <phhs80@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 > The method above does not work on my machine. > 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. > -- ======================================================================= I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect." -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
