Hi,
I have written my thesis in LaTeX, but my advisor has decided that he needs to be able to copy-paste sections from it into Word. I found that when I make a pdf with LaTeX, some characters (such as two f's in a row) cannot be copied from Acrobat - > Word. (They get replaced with underscores.) Does anyone know a workaround to the problem?
(I assume that this is universal, but I can provide a sample file if needed)
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Can't copy-paste text from pdfs make with LaTeX
Hi apecar,
in case the problems are caused only by ligatures, like ff that you mentioned, you may disable ligatures. You could use the microtype, pdftex 1.30 or higher required, see documentation 8 Disabling Ligatures.
Stefan
in case the problems are caused only by ligatures, like ff that you mentioned, you may disable ligatures. You could use the microtype, pdftex 1.30 or higher required, see documentation 8 Disabling Ligatures.
Stefan
Re: Can't copy-paste text from pdfs make with LaTeX
Great! This works wonderfully. Hopefully it will be simple enough for him...
Still, I'm surprised that Acrobat isn't able to understand the ligatures (now I know what they're called). Is there a root issue to this, like me not forcing pdflatex to attach the fonts?
Still, I'm surprised that Acrobat isn't able to understand the ligatures (now I know what they're called). Is there a root issue to this, like me not forcing pdflatex to attach the fonts?