Siard wrote:
songbird wrote:
in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste
operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how
much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the
sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder.
is
when cutting and pasting from evince
to a terminal the process is translating
a um into a mm which is a signifcant
change for a technical document.
the source document used was downloaded from:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf;
search for the phrase
hello,
I can confirm your observation!
the following applications have the same behaviour:
evince, xpdf and pdftotext. they all translate the text:
particle size between 200-500 µm before
into:
particle size between 200–500 mm before
regards
winfried
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, songbird wrote:
Winfried Boxleitner wrote:
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
hello,
I can confirm your observation!
the following applications have the same behaviour:
evince, xpdf and pdftotext. they
On Ma, 30 apr 13, 04:05:16, songbird wrote:
not sure where to file a bug report for this?
anyone have a good suggestion?
I can reproduce this with Acrobat Reader (acroread package from
deb-multimedia) as well. Maybe it's something related to the fonts used?
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 02:28:14AM -0400, songbird wrote:
when cutting and pasting from evince
to a terminal the process is translating
a um into a mm which is a signifcant
change for a technical document.
the source document used was downloaded from:
On Tue 30 Apr 2013 at 11:32:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Ma, 30 apr 13, 04:05:16, songbird wrote:
not sure where to file a bug report for this?
anyone have a good suggestion?
I can reproduce this with Acrobat Reader (acroread package from
deb-multimedia) as well. Maybe
On Tuesday 30 April 2013 10:39:53 Brian wrote:
mupdf too. By this time I'd be thinking in terms of 'What is wrong with
the PDF?'. Fonts, glyphs, unicode etc. Not much can be done about it
without access to the source document.
The discussion is made harder to follow by rendering the original
On 4/30/2013 2:28 AM, songbird wrote:
when cutting and pasting from evince
to a terminal the process is translating
a um into a mm which is a signifcant
change for a technical document.
the source document used was downloaded from:
Darac Marjal wrote:
songbird wrote:
when cutting and pasting from evince
to a terminal the process is translating
a um into a mm which is a signifcant
change for a technical document.
=20
the source document used was downloaded from:
=20
On Tuesday 30 April 2013 11:42:33 songbird wrote:
they could be
made aware some kind of strange effect is going on
It isn't a strange effect. As Jerry and I said, it is just not preserving the
font. No font is conserved. In this case it happens to matter.
An initial µ is changed to M
Dear songbird,
what a wonderful name that is.
songbird wrote:
i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm
using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it
that it does work correctly, but when i hit return
at the end of the line it translates the initial µ
into a capital M. this
songbird wrote:
when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is
translating a um into a mm which is a signifcant change for a
technical document.
the source document used was downloaded from:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf;
Siard wrote:
songbird wrote:
when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is
translating a um into a mm which is a signifcant change for a
technical document.
the source document used was downloaded from:
Claudius Hubig wrote:
songbird wrote:
i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm
using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it
that it does work correctly, but when i hit return
at the end of the line it translates the initial µ
into a capital M. this happens on the first
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
...
That's not a 'u' - it's the lower case greek letter mu, which is
probably not in the charset you're using (sorry, I can't test it right now).
right, it is μ. however, in my LibreOffice document
and this text document it is showing up correctly
when i paste it in
On Tue 30 Apr 2013 at 06:42:33 -0400, songbird wrote:
i don't have access to the original document
other than the link posted above.
Bceause I've snipped a bit, it is
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf/srep01732.pdf
i hope it doesn't happen in other documents as
i
songbird wrote:
in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste
operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how
much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the
sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder.
is there a safer copy
On 4/30/2013 2:04 PM, songbird wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
...
That's not a 'u' - it's the lower case greek letter mu, which is
probably not in the charset you're using (sorry, I can't test it right now).
right, it is μ. however, in my LibreOffice document
and this text document it is
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