[texhax] (no subject)

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-05-08 at 13:25:30 -0400, Thomas Schneider wrote:

 > Bcc: 
 > Subject: Re: [texhax] creating pdf where you can copy and paste
 > Reply-To: 
 > In-Reply-To: <39CC7012-613E-47CF-A9E7-64D36C3A522A at frycomm.com>
 > 
 > > > I'm creating pdfs with latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf. The resulting
 > > > pdf is does not lend itself to copy and paste in adobe reader,
 > > > so I am getting complaints downstream. Is it possible to
 > > > produce pdfs where copy and paste are possible?
 > > 
 > > Yes. You'll need to use either pdflatex or xelatex (or lualatex)
 > > for best results as I understand it.
 > 
 > I get copy/pastable PDFs in Acrobat 8.3.1 (professional) and Adobe
 > Reader 9.5.1 by the latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf route.  I just checked. 
 > I downloaded the latest Adobe Reader 10.1.3 (Mac OS X) and it worked
 > for cut/paste too.  I've never seen a problem with cut/paste.


Did you try a file containing non-ASCII characters?  I assume that
only then the cmap package is needed.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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