From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Clipboard madness Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:57:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20091218085731.GB13109@tomas> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261126958 21517 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2009 09:02:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 18 10:02:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NLYjG-0008D8-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:02:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLYjG-00064p-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:02:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLYj8-00063G-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLYj3-0005yC-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40554 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLYj3-0005y0-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:60997 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLYj2-0001X8-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 618A89004A; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:57:31 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118709 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. >=20 > I do not know what Emacs does when copying from clip board. However [...] > http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/vol191/issue5/ >=20 > I am just copying the text in "Summary", after that word (from > "Supervised" to the end of the paragraph). >=20 >=20 > 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 - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLK0P7Bcgs9XrR2kYRAlV0AJ9FnQe0/N8SjlNP3qnMHIJEJLPzVQCfbzUI jaDPHNPpP+QsR/h6Z1k+cMc=3D =3D7uii -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----