Re: Re: Searchable PDF documents --> Solution: Problem with Mac standard Program

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Re: Searchable PDF documents --> Solution: Problem with Mac standard Program

[Stephan Witt]

Am 14.01.2017 um 20:00 schrieb Uwe Ade :
> 
> .. news! 
> 
> It seems the  problem is a MacOS-Problem. If i use the OSX-Standard-Program 
> Preview (in German Vorschau) theres a problem to save the with Lyx generated 
> Files searchable. 
> After the Compilation preview starts and the PDF-file in Preview is 
> searchable. 
> After saving the file with „Save As“ the saved file is not searchable.
> 
> If i use PDF Expert to show the lyx pdf-output and to save it, the pdf-file 
> is searchable.
> 
> Perhaps someone can use this Information. My Configuration: macOS Sierra 
> Version 10.12.1 Preview (Vorschau) Version 9.0 ( 909.12)

I cannot reproduce this on a Mac with El Capitan Version 10.11.6 and Preview 
Version 8.1 (877.7)

Stephan

Re: Searchable PDF documents --> Solution: Problem with Mac standard Program

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 08:00:03PM +0100, Uwe Ade wrote:
> .. news! 
> 
> It seems the  problem is a MacOS-Problem. If i use the OSX-Standard-Program 
> Preview (in German Vorschau) theres a problem to save the with Lyx generated 
> Files searchable. 
> After the Compilation preview starts and the PDF-file in Preview is 
> searchable. 
> After saving the file with „Save As“ the saved file is not searchable.
> 
> If i use PDF Expert to show the lyx pdf-output and to save it, the pdf-file 
> is searchable.
> 
> Perhaps someone can use this Information. My Configuration: macOS Sierra 
> Version 10.12.1 Preview (Vorschau) Version 9.0 ( 909.12)

You can also use OCR to convert back to searchable, with very good
results in my experience.

For example, this script works very well for me on Ubuntu:
https://github.com/Mike-Now/pdfocr-redux

Scott


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Re: Searchable PDF documents --> Solution: Problem with Mac standard Program

[Uwe Ade]

.. news! 

It seems the  problem is a MacOS-Problem. If i use the OSX-Standard-Program 
Preview (in German Vorschau) theres a problem to save the with Lyx generated 
Files searchable. 
After the Compilation preview starts and the PDF-file in Preview is searchable. 
After saving the file with „Save As“ the saved file is not searchable.

If i use PDF Expert to show the lyx pdf-output and to save it, the pdf-file is 
searchable.

Perhaps someone can use this Information. My Configuration: macOS Sierra 
Version 10.12.1 Preview (Vorschau) Version 9.0 ( 909.12)

Re: Searchable PDF documents

[Uwe Ade]

o.k.

sorry! Your all right!! Very Strange Situation here. The File I generated last 
November are not searchable. 

After all this replies  i Generate a new one from the sorucefiles. The new 
files i compiled all searchable. 

Thanks for the helpfull hints.

uwe 

> Am 14.01.2017 um 19:09 schrieb John White :
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, January 14, 2017 11:22:19 AM Richard Heck wrote:
>> On 01/14/2017 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Uwe Ade wrote:
 For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students
 will
 receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents
 produced are not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx,
 Beamer and Latex searchable pdFs? What is to be observed?
 
>>>  Can they use pdfgrep ? It works well for me (on
>>> 
>>> linux) but may not be available for all platforms.
>> 
>> This is puzzling to me. All the PDFs I produce using LyX are searchable.
>> Though
>> I notice that, with Beamer, the headers are not searchable, though the
>> text is.
>> 
>> Richard
> 
> I generally use article class on my debian box and my lyx pdfs are always 
> searchable in Dolphin.
> 
> John

Re: Searchable PDF documents

[John White]

On Saturday, January 14, 2017 11:22:19 AM Richard Heck wrote:
> On 01/14/2017 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Uwe Ade wrote:
> >> For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students
> >> will
> >> receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents
> >> produced are not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx,
> >> Beamer and Latex searchable pdFs? What is to be observed?
> >> 
> >   Can they use pdfgrep ? It works well for me (on
> > 
> > linux) but may not be available for all platforms.
> 
> This is puzzling to me. All the PDFs I produce using LyX are searchable.
> Though
> I notice that, with Beamer, the headers are not searchable, though the
> text is.
> 
> Richard

I generally use article class on my debian box and my lyx pdfs are always 
searchable in Dolphin.

John

Re: Searchable PDF documents

[Richard Heck]

On 01/14/2017 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Uwe Ade wrote:
>
>> For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students
>> will
>> receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents
>> produced are not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx,
>> Beamer and Latex searchable pdFs? What is to be observed?
>
>   Can they use pdfgrep ? It works well for me (on
> linux) but may not be available for all platforms.

This is puzzling to me. All the PDFs I produce using LyX are searchable.
Though
I notice that, with Beamer, the headers are not searchable, though the
text is.

Richard

Re: Searchable PDF documents

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 01/14/2017 10:49 AM, Uwe Ade wrote:


Hello ,

For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students will 
receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents produced are 
not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx, Beamer and Latex 
searchable pdFs? What is to be observed?

Thanks

Uwe

Uwe,

What format do you use to export the PDF file from LyX? I use File > 
Export > PDF (pdflatex), and my Beamer files are always searchable 
(other than images and math insets, of course).


Paul

Re: Searchable PDF documents

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Uwe Ade wrote:


For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students will
receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents
produced are not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx,
Beamer and Latex searchable pdFs? What is to be observed?


Uwe,

  Can they use pdfgrep ? It works well for me (on
linux) but may not be available for all platforms.

Rich

Searchable PDF documents

[Uwe Ade]

Hello ,

For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students will 
receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents produced are 
not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx, Beamer and Latex 
searchable pdFs? What is to be observed?

Thanks 

Uwe

User dictionary / spellchecker native / MaxOS Sierra / Lyx 2.2

[Blendowske, Ralf]

Hi,

I use Lyx 2-2 on macOS Sierra with the native spell checker.

I would like to share my modifications to  the user dictionary on different 
machines.

Is there a way to transfer the user dictionary?

If not, is it possible if I use Aspell or Hunspell in the future?

Thanks a lot,
Ralf

Re: Latex Error.

[Guenter Milde]

Dear Gordon,

thank you for the report.
Trying to reproduce your problem...

On 2017-01-14, gordon cooper wrote:
...


> There was the problem, a Hyperlink with a irreconcilable character, a
> beginning itemize dot, like this :

> • http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html

This was in an URL inset or Hyperlink inset, right?

> Had a recent mysterious error when trying an Lyx to pdf conversion.
> The same Lyx file converted to html immediately, no errors. 

How about XeTeX or LuaTeX with "non-TeX" (Unicode) fonts? 
Works here.

> I had a coding error, ignored by one converter. A look at the source
> code was not a success.

This leads me to the assumption that you have set the inputencoding
(Document>Settings>Language>Encoding) to "Unicode (utf8)".

IMO, this is a good choice but not much tested on LyX unfortunately as LyX
uses mixed 8-bit encodings by default wit 8-bit "TeX fonts".

With the default encoding, the Source Pane shows the problematic character
in red. 

> The program reported a Latex error but gave no error report.

Here, with utf8 encoding, the error report said "tex capacity exceeded"
while with an 8-bit encoding the error report was the more meaningfull
"could not find LaTeX command for character ...".


Also, inserting non-working Unicode characters into an URL inset is
blocked while copying from somewhere works (but fails later).

Interestingly, some high-bit characters (like äöü) work fine, others are
mangled (ß becomes \T1\ss in the output) others are blocked (e.g. °) (I
suppose, because it is "forced" in lib/unicodesymbols).


The problem here is to prevent the wast of time you experienced without
blocking valid use cases (e.g. export to HTML or with "non-TeX fonts").

Günter