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 and paste function that does preserve fonts?
My job is doing desktop publishing, ATM we work with Adobe InDesign at the workplace. Copying from many documents such as .odt and .doc preserves formatting, but it is a known fact that copying from pdf's does not. If you have a look at this document's fonts in Adobe Reader (Ctrl-D > tab Fonts), then you see that very special fonts are used, such as AdvOT1415ea69.B and AdvOT144a03c1, which are not available for your own documents anyway. But pdf's are simply not the right medium to copy text from. You could import a pdf in Scribus and do some cropping, but that's all. This pdf is produced with a program named Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher, which is unknown to me. It is saved as .ps and translated into a pdf using Distiller. It may be the same as MS Publisher, where saving to .ps is the only way for a .pub document to be usable in the outside world. You could ask the producer to save the document as .rtf, but in fact, what really should be done in such a case, is to inform your client that this task is simply not feasable, or at least laborious and time-consuming. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
