On 8/12/07, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)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
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.