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. Best, Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.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 ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
