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Re: [O] fontenc makes pdf non-searchable


From: J. David Boyd
Subject: Re: [O] fontenc makes pdf non-searchable
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:07:23 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin)

Stefan Nobis <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin Leduc <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> You can find a minimal example here[1], with the org file, and the
>> tex and pdf files generated from it. Firts try to search within the
>> pdf. It does not work (at least on my side) To solve the problem,
>> remove the line with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> Your PDF is not generated with pdflatex (or a newer engine like
> lualatex), but with dvips and Ghostscript. Thus the fonts are not PS
> Type 1 fonts, but Type 3 fonts (bitmap instead of vector; therefore
> scaling/zooming will result in bad quality).
>
> I'm not quite sure if this is also the root cause of the inability to
> search. But if i recompile your tex-file (from [1]) with pdflatex, I
> get Type 1 fonts and have no problems with searching.
>
> Therefore I would suggest to switch the engine to pdflatex.
>
> Another hint: You should try the Latin Modern font (put a
> "\usepackage{lmodern}" after loading fontenc) -- it's the
> (technically) modern variant of Computer Modern (the old TeX default
> font). Lati Modern is available as OpenType font and has less problems
> with Unicode and special characters like german umlauts (ä, ü,...) or
> other non-ASCII letters.
>
> And maybe you should also have a look at biblatex[2] (as a much more
> flexible alternative to natbib).
>
> [1] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7s6di4en5ljbkcq/AAAzyQeg6VkMHnC1X9dQTg6ua?dl=0
> [2] http://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex

And how did you determine that please?   And how would it be switched?

Dave




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