On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:12:42 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: >GregChi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In a hex editor I converted this(above) text: >> (view as fixed width font) >> T e x t c a n b e >> 2e 04 24 16 0d 08 26 05 0d 29 04 0d > >OOo has the habit of recoding fonts with the glyphs as they are used. >When you look at the raw PostScript data, you'll notice that there are >no readable strings in there, just hex sequences for the recoded >fonts. Your hex dump shows such a recoded text. > >I expect that this recoding gets propagated into the PDF as well, >however, I'd expect a PDF text grabber (or find tool) to cope with >this. I've checked Acrobat Reader and xpdf, both seem to grab the text >correctly. > >So I'd primarily suspect the pdf text grabber. > >-- Johan
Ok......... Is this a problem on my system or a problem with the .pdf file? I tried with reader6 & reader5 (same results) I tried with various other .pdf's & got varied results (some from OOo) (somewhere was mentioned a 'character set' as opposed to a font???) -- Greg Agent 1.93/32.576 Opera8 OOo 2(19104) news.readfreenews.net & news.gmane.org Win98se for sale: Apple//,Auto Parts/Equip/Manuals: http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
