On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:26:11AM +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2010 "David J. Perry" <hospes.pri...@verizon.net> wrote: > > >> > >> The proper solution would be to use /ActualText feature of the PDF > >> specification. > > > > I am very interested in this issue of searching PDFs. A google search for > > "PDF Actual Text" turned up nothing. I then downloaded the actual PDF spec > > from the Adobe web site and found the reference, and got the idea of what > > it's about. But how do people like me who use commonly available tools > > such > > as XeLaTeX to make PDFs implement this? Could you say a little more about > > this feature or provide pointers to some information? > > Unfortunately this is just a wishlist. The access to the feature in > XeLaTeX and other open source tools is yet to be designed and > implemented.
IIRC, there are already latex packages that adds higher level support for ActualText tags (low level support is already in the engines). Also libpoppler based PDF viewers are fine copying such text. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
