From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Clipboard madness
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:57:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218085731.GB13109@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50912171941h68dacd88g740c45786c6ffaae@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:41:44AM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I am trying to send copy the summary text from an article in
> PDF-format which I am reading with Acrobat Reader. It does not work
> well at all in this case. For example ">" becomes "4". Some spaces
> disappears.
>
> I do not know what Emacs does when copying from clip board. However
[...]
> http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/vol191/issue5/
>
> I am just copying the text in "Summary", after that word (from
> "Supervised" to the end of the paragraph).
>
>
> Can anyone please shed some light on this?
Running pdftotext over it shows heavily mangled text (things are
misplaced, etc). I get the impression that text was "deduced" from the
laayout after the fact, as if someone running OCR over a print.
Surely some distiller abomination :-(
Regards
- -- tomás
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 3:41 Clipboard madness Lennart Borgman
2009-12-18 3:58 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-18 4:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-18 4:06 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-19 0:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-18 4:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-12-18 8:57 ` tomas [this message]
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