Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread ShreeDevi Kumar
Testing dev-actualtext.pdf sent by JK - Adobe Acrobat Reader XI on Windows 10 - Does not highlight text fully - SEARCH finds words and word parts correctly but usually highlights only beginning of the word containing the letter - COPY paste to NOTEPAD++, OPENOFFICE WRITER

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 24/2/16 09:22, ShreeDevi Kumar wrote: Testing dev-actualtext.pdf sent by JK * Adobe Acrobat Reader XI on Windows 10 o Does not highlight text fully o SEARCH finds words and word parts correctly but usually highlights only beginning of the word containing the letter

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread Will Robertson
On 24 Feb 2016, at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > For a document that wants some other kind of "ActualText", there's going to > need to be pretty detailed markup in the source, I think. (E.g. each word, or > similar unit, will need to be tagged to provide the desired ActualText that > goes w

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Will, Jonathan, and others > On Feb 25, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Will Robertson wrote: > > On 24 Feb 2016, at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: >> >> For a document that wants some other kind of "ActualText", there's going to >> need to be pretty detailed markup in the source, I think. (E.g. each wor

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread ShreeDevi Kumar
Jonathan, This is a really useful feature and I look forward to using it once it is released in TLY2016. Since how well the search and copy paste features work could also be font dependent, I would like to test some more PDFs in unicode devanagari created by this new feature using other fonts. I

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread Will Robertson
Hi Ross, Great to hear from you. I thought of you straight away when writing my email :) > On 25 Feb 2016, at 11:35 AM, Ross Moore wrote: > > You have to be *very* careful with /ActualText, since it must be done using > PDFdoc encoding, > as it becomes part of the page contents stream. > Any

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread Akira Kakuto
The code for the \XeTeXgenerateactualtext feature (it's an integer parameter; set it to 1 to get ActualText added to the PDF, for better copy/paste and search in Acrobat) is now on sourceforge, in an "actualtext" branch, for anyone who wants to try building and experimenting with it. Windows

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

2016-02-24 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Will, > On Feb 25, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Will Robertson wrote: > > Hi Ross, > > Great to hear from you. > I thought of you straight away when writing my email :) > > >> On 25 Feb 2016, at 11:35 AM, Ross Moore wrote: >> >> You have to be *very* careful with /ActualText, since it must be done