On 23 February 2016 at 14:58, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is not only the problem of copy&paste, you will not be able to use > the search dialog in Acrobat. For instance, you will not be able to find > किताब. > > Yes, you are right. Search does not work for unicode fonts for complex > scripts in the current pdfs. > > Hence the request ... > It isn't an XeTeX/XeLaTeX issue ... it is an inherent limitation of the PDF file format. The best XeTeX could do .. is type to: 1) provide ways of controlling the subsetting or not of fonts and allow editing or customisation of ToUnicode mappings on one hand; and 2) add some tagging algorithms and add ActualText attributes But this isn't going to get you very far without creating a whole information ecosystem for the PDFs. Alternatively, it could add support for an alternative format to PDFs that doesn't suffer the same problems as PDF documents. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com
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