Re: Searching in PDF-file broken?
Brian wrote on 09/10/2014 18:20:
> On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 16:32:50 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>
>> Recently I got a PDF-file which displays alright with a pdf-viewer but searching
>> for text or numbers does not work correctly.
>>
>> I tried different viewers like the one built into iceweasel, one of the
>> poppler-family like xpdf or evince, and mupdf.
>> The text search fails if using a whole word with its first letter (like "monat"
>> in the example file available at
>> http://www.file-upload.net/download-9507877/iText-2.0.8-example.pdf.html).
>> Searching without the first letter works.
>
> Having to sign-up is a disincentive to examining the PDF.
>
No, you don't have to sign up. There are two download buttons, choose the one on
the right side. But you'll also get an offensive advertisement.
>> Likewise, copying strings from a pdf-viewer results in several wrong letters.
>> Also for digits neither searching nor copying works.
>>
>> I was told that it works in Windows. I don't have a Windows system to check.
>>
>> Has anybody else experienced this phenomenon? Is it a problem of some debian
>> package?
>
> The problem is far more likely to lie with the PDF and its fonts.
>
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.
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