Re: OT: don't understand something about xpdf

2005-12-15 Thread Arafangion
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:43, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > How come ? Surely the text in the pdf file is not ascii ? Surely > even the text is stored as a "graphic" in the pdf file ? Actually, iirc, it's a form of encapsulated ps (Postscript), a reverse polish programming language. The text can the

Re: OT: don't understand something about xpdf

2005-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Joe Mc Cool wrote: cutting and pasting from a pdf - both text and image - is fairly easy using the tools/utils from xpdf. Under X I can drag my mouse over the _text_ in a pdf file. Then in an xemacs window I can double click and the text is pasted in there. (A very useful facility.) How com

Re: OT: don't understand something about xpdf

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Mc Cool
> cutting and pasting from a pdf - both text and image - is fairly easy > using the tools/utils from xpdf. Under X I can drag my mouse over the _text_ in a pdf file. Then in an xemacs window I can double click and the text is pasted in there. (A very useful facility.) How come ? Surely the te