Re: text messes up in ps2pdf converted pdf

From	uhhu <M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: text messes up in ps2pdf converted pdf
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Date	2011-04-26 18:29 +0300
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Peng  Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> 2011-04-26:

> On Apr 26, 8:57 am, uhhu <M8R-kwn...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> > Peng  Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> 2011-04-25:
> >
> > > I convert the ps file to a pdf file. But the text in the pdf is
> > > messed up. I'm wondering how to convert a ps file to a pdf file
> > > so that the text can be copied? Thanks and look forward to
> > > hearing from you!
> >
> > > $ps2pdf pcfg-notes.ps
> >
> > >http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~roni/11761-s01/PreviousYearsHandouts/pcfg-note...
> >
> > It seems the small-caps (a-z) are "rot-2" coded.

Of course, the a-z are not small caps but lower case.

> >
> > $ tr a-z c-zab
> 
> What is this?

Sorry for not explaining. It is the Unix/Linux command to change the
off-by-2 (or "rot-2") characters copied from the pdf file back to
normal text. Not the solution you are looking for, though.

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