o.k. sorry! Your all right!! Very Strange Situation here. The File I generated last November are not searchable.
After all this replies i Generate a new one from the sorucefiles. The new files i compiled all searchable. Thanks for the helpfull hints. uwe > Am 14.01.2017 um 19:09 schrieb John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com>: > > > > On Saturday, January 14, 2017 11:22:19 AM Richard Heck wrote: >> On 01/14/2017 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Uwe Ade wrote: >>>> For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students >>>> will >>>> receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents >>>> produced are not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx, >>>> Beamer and Latex searchable pdFs? What is to be observed? >>>> >>> Can they use pdfgrep <https://pdfgrep.org/>? It works well for me (on >>> >>> linux) but may not be available for all platforms. >> >> This is puzzling to me. All the PDFs I produce using LyX are searchable. >> Though >> I notice that, with Beamer, the headers are not searchable, though the >> text is. >> >> Richard > > I generally use article class on my debian box and my lyx pdfs are always > searchable in Dolphin. > > John