[XeTeX] Res: small caps not searcheable

Andrew Cunningham lang.support at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 01:57:03 CEST 2009


2009/8/5 David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net>

>
> For the long term, certainly not using PUA values is right.  I'm still not
> sure what to do right now, given the small number of OT-capable apps.  I
> think (but now need to confirm) that PDFs produced by InDesign (and perhaps
> other programs) can be searched even if they are dealing with a font that
> uses PUA values.
>


My experiences with PDFs generated by InDesign ME is that it relies heavily
on PUA and the presentational blocks for Arabic, depending on how the font
was designed of course.

I gave up trying to search and index PDF files long ago.

Andrew

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Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia

andrewc at vicnet.net.au
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