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Re: How to make text copiable from pdf generated by ghostscript?

From Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: How to make text copiable from pdf generated by ghostscript?
Date 2011-07-11 02:53 +0000
Organization albasani.net
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:15:01 -0700 (PDT), Peng Yu wrote:
 > If you try to copy text from the following pdf (in Acrobat ctrl+C),
 > you will see the copied text are not correct. I'm wondering if there
 > is a way to fix this pdf file so that the text can be copied
 > correctly.
 >
 > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/raw-attachment/ticket/620/loader2000Fast.pdf

Use another PDF viewer. xpdf and evince can copy the text.  It might help
if the embedded fonts were type 1.  

Bob T.

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How to make text copiable from pdf generated by ghostscript? Peng  Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 16:15 -0700
  Re: How to make text copiable from pdf generated by ghostscript? Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-07-11 02:53 +0000

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