On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 17:38, Elliott Roper <elli...@yrl.co.uk> wrote: > [...] The searchable image you have seen is an optional output from > Acrobat Professional's OCR processing. It has no chance on earth of > OCR-ing ligatures and swashes, and wouldn't know a small cap if one > jumped up and bit it.
Yeah, sure, I just mentioned that as an indication that what I need might be possible. The part about ligatures was just another example. That said, I suspect that the ligatures “work” (i.e., you can search for their letters) with a lot of special-casing from some part of the viewer. I noticed that standard ones like “ff" or “fi” worked, but in the same document, with the same font, non-quite-as-standard ones like “Th” didn’t. Or perhaps LaTeX handles them differently, I don’t know. > Since you are resigned to recruiting agencies and others mangling your > beautiful work, and since your aim is to get your CV in front of a > competing horde of generous employers, you better admit your role is > not to teach recruiters typography. [...] > Sadly, the best way to hawk a CV to recruiters is to do it in > Word. Default styles, default fonts and no hand formatting beyond an > emphasis character style. They are going to copy then "paste special" to > give it their corporate image whether you like it or not. > > It's ugly out there. Yes, well, that doesn’t mean we can’t strive for improvement :) Anyway, I gave the CV as an example simply because I was working on it at the moment. This is quite a common problem—I’ve seen lots of PDFs where it annoyed me—and like it or not, PDF has its uses and few alternatives. By the way, I managed to fix my particular problem by splitting the font in several different ones and a lot cludges in the LaTeX source. But it was a lot of annoying work (and ugly, too). I’m still looking for a better way. I’ve seen Joel Salomon reply with a couple of macros, but haven’t had time to try them yet. They look suspiciously similar to what I’ve tried and failed; I suspect they won’t handle the complex positioning I have in mind, but I’ll try. --Bogdan Butnaru -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
