On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 13:01 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
On 8/12/07, Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com 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.
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