[texhax] (no subject)

[Lars Madsen]

On 05/08/2012 08:52 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 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
>

what about ligatures?