On 29/08/14 02:35, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-08-28 22:29 (GMT+0200) Istvan Gabor composed:
tool should copy text. By the way, this is the same protocol so far as in kpdf. After selecting the text by drawing the rectangle I can select either a) text copy to clipboard or b) image copy to clipboard. Funnily I selected "text copy to clipboard".
In the meantime I looked into this selection tool thing and found in the tools menu the different selection options. I did not use this before. If I select text selection tool and select text it is not at all like selecting text in a word processor. I have then at least 20 green colored boxes with different sizes, when they overlap the color is darker green. There are several overlaps, at least 10.
I do have it also with some other pdf documents. The result of the copy/paste is absolutely independent from which tool, the text selection tool, or the selection tool is used for copying the text.
Has no one participating in this thread considered that maybe problem isn't the source, but the destination? It seems rather clear to me that Istvan's PDF content is, or at least was originally, *tabular* data. Yet, no one that I've noticed has mentioned trying to paste it into a tabular data application, to wit _any_ spreadsheet. O_O Excellent point, Felix.
I just tried pasting PDF tabular data into OO Calc from Okular, but the result is the same, i.e. everything ends up in a single column, with the original rows out of order (identical in appearance to the text-based example I gave earlier). Hence useless. When pasted from KPDF, the result is visually what you expect (i.e. the original lines are preserved), but you will need to tweak the import using the Calc dialog to correctly split the data in columns. So not ideal but better already. HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com