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| From | Unknown <dog@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Subject | *nix: pdftotext messes quotes; mouse-pastes OK? |
| Date | 2015-09-09 05:34 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <pan.2015.09.09.05.37.39@gmail.com> (permalink) |
How does mouse-pasting from `xpdf <file.pdf>` manage to do the quote/ apostrophe correctly; when `pdftotext` can't do it: but translates the single-quote to 3 non-ASCII-chars ?! I'm guessing, that working backwards from the screen: screen <-FrameBufrPixels <-Char & Font Well yes,the mouse current X,Y position is/must be mappable to the corresponding char. Whereas `pdftotext` only sees the bytes of the <File.pdf>. Ie. the mouse works with wysiwyg, where as `pdftotext` misses out several translation steps. Is that right?
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*nix: pdftotext messes quotes; mouse-pastes OK? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 05:34 +0000
Re: *nix: pdftotext messes quotes; mouse-pastes OK? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-12 22:18 -0700
Re: *nix: pdftotext messes quotes; mouse-pastes OK? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-09-24 13:27 +0000
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