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bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs
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Philip K. |
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bug#41583: Can't copy text from PDFs |
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Date: |
Fri, 29 May 2020 01:10:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> In browsers one can highlight and copy text from PDFs.
> In emacs-version "26.3" all one can do is look at the text.
By default (that is by using doc-view) Emacs converts PDF files to
images, and thereby looses all meta-data that a real Pdf viewer can make
use of. That's why the default keybidnings for resizing are the same as
in image-mode ('+' to enlarge, '-' to shrink).
If you're not ok with this, there is a project named "pdf-tools" that
aims to fix these issues, which you might be interested in.
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Philip K.