Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:30:10PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 20 Sep 2016 at 16:12:35 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Monday 19 September 2016 14:15:03 Celejar wrote:
> > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:14:37 -0400
> > > Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Evince apparently does not support selecting text for copying. This does
> > >
> > > My evince (3.14.1, from 3.14.1-2+deb8u1) does support selecting text
> > > for copying.
> > >
> > > Celejar
> >
> > Mine too. But then I also have 3.14.1-2+deb8u1.
>
> Selection of text from a pdf isn't always possible with evince. Example:
>
> paps /etc/nssitch.conf > nsswitch.ps
^^^ probably typo
> ps2pdf nsswitch.ps nsswitch.pdf
>
> When it is selectable it isn't necessarily capable of being copied.
>
> Isn't life confusing?
I can confirm that a pdf produced this way has no usable text to
select (tested here with xpdf). If you generate the .ps with a2ps
a2ps /etc/nsswitch.conf -o nsswitch.ps
then "it works". Thus, it seems to be paps who's doing something
strange (and in fact, looking at the Postscript file yields something
pretty funny. Paps seems to be out-smarting itself.
Note that a Postscript (or a PDF) can render something which *looks*
like text, but for all purposes *isn't* a text (for an extreme case,
think a bitmap image of a text).
regards
- -- tomás
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