Jason
You may find the LaTeX tutorial informative at
http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/egsa/LaTeX.pdf
LaTeX contains formatting instructions which almost certainly are
upsetting your copy & paste attempts
I am using Acrobat 5 on MacOSX 10.4.11 as I have an Omnis database
requiring OS9 Classic
Is it possible to produce a PDF file from your LaTeX file ?
Then you could probably do a copy and paste from there
Keith
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Jason Davies wrote:
On 22 Feb 2014, at 23:01, Keith Scott wrote:
Using Acrobat, have you tried using the TEXT SELECT or COLUMN SELECT
tool
Options are shown as "T" in the menu as attached
I use this regularly to copy & paste selected areas of text from PDF
files into MSWord
(is that the latest version? 11 doesn't look like that...) Not sure if
I'm doing what you suggest but when I copy the the text I get garbage:
this reads as the word 'instantaneous' for example but copied and
pasted it is:
????????????????????????????
that's even though the text seems perfectly ok. We are finding
ingenious ways to prevent plagiarism software from being able to find
anything. This particular file is actually a LaTeX file so it's
baffling (but in this case I suspect it's ANSI-encoding somehow
getting garbled when treated as UTF or something).
It does look like you can't easily edit the 'hidden text' behind OCR
in Acrobat. Quite weird really given that OCR is still so hit and miss...
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