Hey finally your response helped me a lot, that is the problem was probably on
my side.
I solved it by installing the package cm-super, as suggested here. I still
can't search in the pdf I gave you (and still wondering why YOU can), but
re-exporting the org file makes a pdf that now works correctly.
Thanks again !
Martin
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 13:56:45 -0400
> From: w...@pobox.com
> To: mart...@hotmail.com
> CC: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [O] fontenc makes pdf non-searchable
>
> On 21 March 2015, Martin Leduc wrote:
>
> > You can find a minimal example here [1], with the org file, and the tex and
> > pdf files generated from it. Firts try to search within the pdf. It does
> > not work (at least on my side) To solve the problem, remove the line with
> > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> >
> > in the tex file, and compile it. It should now search normally.
>
> "It works for me" is all I can say, which isn't too helpful. Everything
> happens
> as it should, and I can search the PDF (in evince). Maybe it's something
> with
> your LaTeX setup? Sorry I can't suggest anything more.
>
> Bill
>
> [1] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7s6di4en5ljbkcq/AAAzyQeg6VkMHnC1X9dQTg6ua?dl=0
>
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