GeneralStrange characters appear when I copy text from pdf file

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Minero
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Strange characters appear when I copy text from pdf file

Post by Minero »

Hello everybody,

I'm having problems when I try to copy a text existing in a PDF file generated by LaTeX.
I generated a PDF file using LaTeX and I opened it in Adobe Reader, xpdf and Okular. In these cases, I use the selection tool to copy a text and when I paste it into a txt file, strange characters and symbols appear instead of the text itself.
In .tex source code, I'm using package

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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What am I doing wrong? How can I solve this problem?

Thanks

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Re: Strange characters appear when I copy text from pdf file

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi Minero,

perhaps provide a code example, so we could test that.

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Minero
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Strange characters appear when I copy text from pdf file

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Hello Stefan_K,

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside,final]{book}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[brazil]{varioref}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage[sf,bf,compact,topmarks,calcwidth,pagestyles]{titlesec}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{graphicx,xr}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,top=20mm,bottom=20mm,left=30mm,right=20mm}
\usepackage{cite}
\hyphenation{
re-es-cre-ve-re-mos
ob-via-men-te
bo-lhas
su-per-vi-si-o-na-do
}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\newcommand{\pr}{\hspace*{.7cm}}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-1mm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.6mm}
\setlength{\textheight}{23.5cm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{17.0cm}
\setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
 
 
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The source code that I'm generating the PDF using LaTeX is above.
I'm compiling using the following sequences:

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#latex example.tex
#dvipdf example.dvi
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Thanks!
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