[XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Mon, 10 May 2010  "David J. Perry" <hospes.primus at verizon.net> wrote:

>>
>> The proper solution would be to use /ActualText feature of the PDF
>> specification.
>
> I am very interested in this issue of searching PDFs.  A google search for 
> "PDF Actual Text" turned up nothing.  I then downloaded the actual PDF spec 
> from the Adobe web site and found the reference, and got the idea of what 
> it's about.  But how do people like me who use commonly available tools such 
> as XeLaTeX to make PDFs implement this? Could you say a little more about 
> this feature or provide pointers to some information?

Unfortunately this is just a wishlist. The access to the feature in
XeLaTeX and other open source tools is yet to be designed and
implemented.

Best regards

Janusz

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - Warsaw University (Department of Formal Linguistics)
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