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
