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Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 01:10:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87sgfjd5aj.fsf@warpmail.net> References: <87r1v4q8z1.5.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="74241"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 41583@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 29 01:11:16 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRgA-000J9t-SA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 01:11:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33170 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRg9-0001hk-Kp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRfy-0001hY-AY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRfy-0004vs-0M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRfx-0006i2-RF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:11:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Philip K." Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:11:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41583 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41583-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41583.159070745625778 (code B ref 41583); Thu, 28 May 2020 23:11:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 May 2020 23:10:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53250 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRfs-0006hi-Fi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from wout5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.21]:60815) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeRfr-0006hW-FR for 41583@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A06CA0; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=warpmail.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=fm3; bh= iIqDEq0L7VbmbVPs+LppbYahup9s9m9VqH/GPtHuyyY=; b=VAm/8rVTJGbi75j1 vfZGPxgWYBZiaU/nk4AZT/tfJrM9LkTQwrIJKvWoNp64VPzHc7tilzRimhRT20Jr EI9TW+el5JE88CLL7qqtBZWEZSG9FBfL+eAMcYGIVzbQ6Yz147ogScrg9LJVO/VU sFRt+j4k3KSzGK1AXaZiDvSdQbYdoCuexSAV7K+w9MHzM/e5A9eoFoUIgXe84QCj Ep5HbXnPB1toOthE2oRZO8eFvVqwe7fcB65crxoXxdRLYPW5q9RKzfZ4z/+rcGRL 6bxhAH9wX1M1tonHJ1SOy0li+NK+D7u7cVUAdlDC/E5iZofx2WQUwC2TjgoRsTS7 L/4z0Q== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=iIqDEq0L7VbmbVPs+LppbYahup9s9m9VqH/GPtHuy yY=; b=mBq9JGoK9Zpqu0/vtern3Nb3MYGVTgDhhO1KRsJAJIMdQiczA351VwWcA iPmFNJs+7c/fc8Vld6y96vLlR8E/PTvtp4ooO+9axAau3tMs/HiTSQJ/80Qlv9UA KoRGo9g5LC4gFBx4Zmnq0WEMJnMxBzJ1bRnrEbhZYiJHDcuqIdvnbnaL57raqEXY tDghjiCVkx9acH0ZV5AlS1i+ItukTZMcbH8CzksJCggjkA8sy4kt3J65T8IXyXZ7 QwUT8iV6Mcj+1qFK11yhOx3F9iNG8Yuopk4Savd5UEJzU+BjMYRY2DCtM8ogOU2s 4eJVzIJ2GsFLZPN45mlSuuuwngJ3A== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduhedruddvjedgudejucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpefhvffufhffjgfkfgggtgfgsehtqh ertddtreejnecuhfhrohhmpedfrfhhihhlihhpucfmrddfuceophhhihhlihhpseifrghr phhmrghilhdrnhgvtheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepueeuueekkefgtddugedvfedvff dttdetkeefheetveffhefffeefgffgvdffgfeinecukfhppeejledrvdduledrvddtiedr vddvfeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpe hphhhilhhiphesfigrrhhpmhgrihhlrdhnvght X-ME-Proxy: Original-Received: from localhost (p4fdbcedf.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.219.206.223]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8A8CA3061856; Thu, 28 May 2020 19:10:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87r1v4q8z1.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("=?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 29 May 2020 01:12:50 +0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:181166 Archived-At: =E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC Dan Jacobson 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).=20 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. --=20 Philip K.