I'm perfectly au fait with LaTeX (though nice link) -- it's that I've
received a pdf, created with TeX, which has problems. I'm not used to
the 'hidden text' being so problematic so I was hoping to actually see
it;) I don't have the source file.
The forums seem to say it can't be done, unfortunately, in any useful
way...I just wondered if anyone here had found an app that did let you
see it/edit it.
I also want to work out if this is deliberate, because students like
trying to game the plagiarism software (but I don't think this
particular one IS).
On 23 Feb 2014, at 8:51, Keith Scott wrote:
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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