[XeTeX] is \XeTeXgenerateactualtext included in texlive 2016?

[ShreeDevi Kumar]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your feedback. It is good to know that this new
feature is included in texlive 2016 and works well in Adobe Reader (search,
copy), okular (serach, copy, export as text) and pdf2text with this new
feature.

I also tried with file with sanskrit text in devanagari script (
http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_shiva/AryAshatakamappayyA.pdf) created
under texlive 2016 on ubuntu 14.04, viewing it with Adobe Reader XI on
Windows 10 and the results are similar - funny selection, save as text
getting ... instead of devanagari, but search and copy/paste work
beautifully :-)

Thank you so much to the developers for adding this feature. Much
appreciated!! We plan to update all the pdfs on sanskritdocuments.org
with  \XeTeXgenerateactualtext
enabled to create searchable devanagari pdfs.

Thanks and Regards.

ShreeDevi
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​http://sanskritdocuments.org/


On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have tried with TL 2016 in Linux (Fedora 23) on x86_64. I tried to
> search for किताब and tried to copy दिलचस्प in addition. The test was
> done on a book in Hindi which I am just writing. Search works properly
> in Adobe Reader 9 and okular. Selection is very strange in AR, it
> visually select just the first syllable of a word but in fact the
> whole word is selected. In okular a rectangular area is selected and
> although just a part of a word seems to be selected, in fact the whole
> word is selected. Thus the selection is always funny and it it not
> clear what is selected. Anyway, the pasted text is correct. Save as
> text from AR creates garbage, Export as plain text from okular works,
> pdftotext (from xpdf or poppler) works too.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
> 2016-07-30 9:03 GMT+02:00 ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that \XeTeXgenerateactualtext is included in texlive
> > 2016?
> >
> > I installed texlive 2016 yesterday on ubuntu 14.04 and would like to use
> it
> > with sanskrit documents in devanagari.
> >
> > I would also like to know which pdf viewers support actualtext for
> complex
> > scripts.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Shree
> >
> >
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