* bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs
@ 2020-05-28 17:12 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-05-28 23:10 ` Philip K.
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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2020-05-28 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 41583
In browsers one can highlight and copy text from PDFs.
In emacs-version "26.3" all one can do is look at the text.
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* bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs
2020-05-28 17:12 bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2020-05-28 23:10 ` Philip K.
2020-05-29 11:52 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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From: Philip K. @ 2020-05-28 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: 41583
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> In browsers one can highlight and copy text from PDFs.
> In emacs-version "26.3" all one can do is look at the text.
By default (that is by using doc-view) Emacs converts PDF files to
images, and thereby looses all meta-data that a real Pdf viewer can make
use of. That's why the default keybidnings for resizing are the same as
in image-mode ('+' to enlarge, '-' to shrink).
If you're not ok with this, there is a project named "pdf-tools" that
aims to fix these issues, which you might be interested in.
--
Philip K.
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