[XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

[ShreeDevi Kumar]

Testing dev-actualtext.pdf sent by JK


   - Adobe Acrobat Reader XI on Windows 10
   - Does not highlight text fully
      - SEARCH finds words and word parts correctly but usually highlights
      only beginning of the word containing the letter
      - COPY paste to NOTEPAD++, OPENOFFICE WRITER works correctly,
      - Save as TXT file does not work correctly - only saves ... in it,
      not the actual unicode text which can be copied
   - Foxit Reader 7.3 on Windows 10
      - Highlights text fully,
      - smallest highlight unit is word,
      - COPY paste to notepad++ as well as SEARCH does NOT work correctly as
      Unicode text is not fully correct.

ूय

िनकोड क्या ह ? ै


   - ​Save as TXT file does not work correctly - saves the unicode text
      with same problems as in copy and paste​

      - ​Microsoft Edge Viewer on Windows 10
   - ​
      Highlights text fully,
      - COPY paste to notepad++ as well as SEARCH does NOT work correctly
      as Unicode text is not fully correct.

      य ूिनकोड क्या है?

      - ​
   Previewing from within gmail in Chrome on Windows 10 -
      - Highlights text fully,
      - smallest highlight unit is word,
      - COPY paste to NOTEPAD++, OPENOFFICE WRITER works correctly,
      - (highlights only first letter of first word in paragraph यू rather
      than full word यूनिकोड)
      - there is NO SEARCH feature
      - there is no save as TXT file feature
   - Same as above while Previewing from within gmail in Internet Explorer
   on Windows 10




ShreeDevi
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/2/16 17:39, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>> Using Akira-san's "actest.pdf" as sample, Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.1 allows
>> me to select only half of the text whereas Adobe Reader DC allows me to
>> select it all; neither allows me to select individual kanji.
>>
>>
> Ah, right... as there are no spaces between the kanji, they'll end up in
> the same text object. That's a shortcoming of how the current
> implementation works, for scripts that don't use inter-word spaces.
>
> In either case, copy&paste actually gives you the whole text, even though
> AAPro only highlights half of it, I guess?
>
> JK
>
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