Joe Mc Cool wrote:
cutting and pasting from a pdf - both text and image - is fairly easy using the tools/utils from xpdf.Under X I can drag my mouse over the _text_ in a pdf file. Then in an xemacs window I can double click and the text is pasted in there. (A very useful facility.) How come ? Surely the text in the pdf file is not ascii ? Surely even the text is stored as a "graphic" in the pdf file ? I am obviously misunderstanding something. Joe Mc Cool
PDF is just a stripped down and compressed version of PS. Thus, the text is certainly copyable. It may not be stored directly in ASCII format in the PDF (as in I am not sure if this is the case or not), but it is accessible as some kind of text.
-Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto