Siard wrote: > songbird wrote: >> in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste >> operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how >> much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the >> sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder. >> >> is there a safer copy and paste function that does preserve fonts? > > My job is doing desktop publishing, ATM we work with Adobe InDesign at > the workplace. Copying from many documents such as .odt and .doc > preserves formatting, but it is a known fact that copying from pdf's > does not.
i won't be looking to do that much any longer. > If you have a look at this document's fonts in Adobe Reader (Ctrl-D > > tab Fonts), then you see that very special fonts are used, such as > AdvOT1415ea69.B and AdvOT144a03c1, which are not available for your own > documents anyway. > > But pdf's are simply not the right medium to copy text from. You could > import a pdf in Scribus and do some cropping, but that's all. > This pdf is produced with a program named Arbortext Advanced Print > Publisher, which is unknown to me. It is saved as .ps and translated > into a pdf using Distiller. It may be the same as MS Publisher, where > saving to .ps is the only way for a .pub document to be usable in the > outside world. You could ask the producer to save the document > as .rtf, but in fact, what really should be done in such a case, is to > inform your client that this task is simply not feasable, or at least > laborious and time-consuming. thanks for the info. i'm pretty sure i won't be advising anyone about this sort of thing, so the simple answer is to not do it. in the cases where i do need to copy and paste from a pdf it seems like i'll just have to remind myself to proof read very carefully. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/o3c65a-6hc....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
