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* 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.
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
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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* bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs
  2020-05-28 23:10 ` Philip K.
@ 2020-05-29 11:52   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  2020-08-05 10:58     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2020-05-29 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Philip K.; +Cc: 41583

Ah, https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools . Good to know.





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* bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs
  2020-05-29 11:52   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2020-08-05 10:58     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2020-08-05 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: Philip K., 41583

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> Ah, https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools . Good to know.

So I don't think there's anything further to do in this bug report, and
I'm closing it.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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