On 08/27/2014 11:09 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 8/27/2014 7:22 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Now I've just gone back to the same PDF document, the one I personally produced with LibreOffice, and used the 'selection tool' to select a region that includes some text. But its a rectangle, possibly a bitmap, who knows.
Well actually I'm offered a menu. I can paste to clipboard as text or I can paste to clipboard as bitmap.
It looks like okular has smarts that I never suspected. Well that works if the document was created by something like LibreOffice.
But not all documents have text inside. Some are just images of text, especially if you scanned them into pdfs.
I'm not a fan of Okular, but I won't cut off my nose to spite my face, either, so I tried what you suggested: In Okular I opened a pdf file that was sent to me for editing, used the tools menu > selection tool, drew a box around a piece of the pdf text, told it copy to clipboard, and then pasted the clip into a good word processor--TextMaker 2012, from Softmaker Office, which, btw, is not free. Just like before, one word per line. Useless! Now, just in case you think Libre is better, Libre created a mess out of the copied and pasted text, with arrows, and dots, and pipes, and paragraph signs and stuff. Out of curiosity, I copied that mess into Kate, and Kate stripped out the garbage characters, but left lots of spaces between all the words--and not the same "word space" all along, either. And the underlying structure was still there: copying the Kate file back to a word processor, it looked just like it did before. Kate had not cleaned up the mess, it just ignored some of it! If anyone wishes to have a shot at this pdf, I will send it to you off-line. It is not personal, but it IS copyrighted ©2014 The Pedal Steel Guitar Association, Inc. It is a file submission for the Newsletter of that corporation, and in edited form will be published in an upcoming issue, so it not for free distribution. Finally, I don't know how the pdf file was created, altho I would bet a rather large sum that it was _not_ created on Libre! --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org