[texhax] creating pdf where you can copy and paste
Michael P. Soulier
msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Tue May 8 21:21:54 CEST 2012
On 08/05/12 William Adams said:
> Yes. You'll need to use either pdflatex or xelatex (or lualatex) for best
> results as I understand it.
>
> For the former you'll want to \usepackage{cmap}.
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cmap
Using pdflatex, the resulting pdf seems to work with copy/paste in adobe. The
resulting pdf doesn't look as nice, presumably because it's relying on the pdf
viewer to display the fonts properly instead of drawing all of the curves
itself...
Mike
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