[pdftex] pdflatex adds spaces between letters, which makes search impossible

[George N. White III]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 at 07:45, Olivier via pdftex <pdftex at tug.org> wrote:

>  > What version of mutools? With the version I get (...)
>  > which seems to be 1.10a (...) it seems to work for me:
>  >
>  > $ mutool draw -F txt try.pdf | head -1
>  > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.Ut purus elit,
>
> I am on a Debian Testing, with `mutool` version 1.15.0
>
> $ mutool -v
> mutool version 1.15.0
>
> $ mutool draw -F txt test.pdf | head -1
> Lor e m
>

Per <https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701602> 1.14 was OK, but
"text extraction in v1.16 produces ragged output, unexpected letter
spacing, etc.
for text, html and all other formats. "

-- 
George N. White III
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