On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:51 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear friends, > > I am writing this now because I am facing a problem for the first time > and I am not able to find a solution. I have copied text from pdf files > opened in evince and pasted them to get good results so many times. The > only times I could not do it was when they had Malayalam text, whether > from a document created using LaTeX or otherwise. I have so far have had > no problems in copying English text from pdf files.I have done that from > documents opened in evince or kpdf. > > But, now I am facing such a problem when I try to copy from a particular > document downloaded from the Internet. I think it was created using TeX > for two reasons. First of all the text shown at the top of the window > says it is a dvi file. Secondly, it was created by the creator of TeX > himself, the inimitable Prof. Donald Knuth himself. I wanted to quote > his words in an article I am writing and thought I could avoid errors > and also make it easier if I just copied and pasted the text. But I got > gibberish when I pasted the text into an editor. I also tried converting > the entire document into text using pdftotext, pdftosrc and pdftabw. But > every time, I got only gibberish. Does anyone here understand what could > be going wrong? > > Thanks for any help or even any pointers that you may give. > Can you share the link to the doc sir? I will give it a try myself. -- Jaseem Abid http://jaseemabid.github.com -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
