Thanks to those who responded, despite the bogus url I provided. You confirmed that I wasn't the only one who couldn't search musixdoc.pdf.
I've noticed that what appears to distinguish it from all the other nearby PDFs is that according to document properties in Acrobat, it was produced with dvips+AFPL Ghostscript 8.53. The other PDFs at hand were made with either an earlier or later version of Ghostscript. Then I remembered that I may have produced it on a little-used computer. Upon checking that PC, I saw that indeed it produced PDFs with the same Ghostscript version, and the same unsearchability. Case closed. I have regenerated musixdoc.pdf with GS version 8.60, replaced it in musixtex114.zip, and uploaded both files to the NEW home of the archive. --Don Simons >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Cornelius C. Noack >Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 5:20 AM >To: Werner Icking Music Archive >Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Searchability of pdf's > >On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Don Simons wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:41:17 -0800 >> Subject: [TeX-Music] Searchability of pdf's >> >> I've noticed a strange "feature" of the version of musixdoc.pdf in the >> archive at >> http://www.icking-music- >archive.org/software/indexmt6.html/musixtex/musixtex >> .pdf . >> >> (cut) > >I just compared 3 versions of musixdoc.pdf available to me: > > (1) freshly downloaded today from > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdoc.pdf > (2) contained in the zip file musixtex114 (which I had downloaded >on > Dec '09) and which is dated 09/10/18 > > These 2 seem identical, and both show the non-searchability (with > Adobe reader 9.3.1) described by Don; > > (3) a version named mxdoc114a.pdf, dated 08/09/06, which is >*longer* > than the previous 2 and which *is* searchable be the Adobe > reader. > >I did not (yet) check for any textual differences between (1)/(2) vs. >(3) . > >Perhaps this is a clue in the ongoing detective work! > >ccn. > >PS: the musixdoc.pdf on > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/taupin/ > dates from 2005-07-30 (!), so naturally I excluded that from my > survey. > >-- >................................................................. > > Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: > Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 > Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422 > Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 > D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 > Fax: 346 7872 > E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org > WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack >................................................................. >_______________________________________________ >[email protected] mailing list >If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex- >music _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
