[poppler] Characters with accents not correctly handled

[Pino Toscano]

Alle domenica 19 agosto 2007, Laurent Aguerreche ha scritto:
> Accents are correctly handled, that's right (but spaces are all replaced
> with "unbreakable" spaces!).
>
> > You can them open your latex pdf in acrobat reader and
> > see it can neither handle the accents correctly.
>
> Hum... That's wrong. My latex-generated PDF is perfectly opened with
> acroread, evince, kpdf and xpdf. Why?!

Nope, Albert was actually correct, pdflatex _can_, and actually _do_, generate 
PDFs with unreadable text. Example: 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131564 (note that also acroread fails).

Remember: visual representaton of characters and their "textual" information 
are totally separate - you can have documents with lots of pages, with not a 
single character that can be extracted from it.
That's why you can perfectly open and _read_ it, but not _extract_ its text.

> > So blame latex, not poppler.
>
> Ok but if you know the problem, are latex developers aware too? Do you
> know whether it is fixable?

Bug them, not poppler or any PDF reader.

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Pino Toscano
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