Re: Clipboard madness

[tomas]

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:41:44AM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I am trying to send copy the summary text from an article in
> PDF-format which I am reading with Acrobat Reader. It does not work
> well at all in this case. For example ">" becomes "4". Some spaces
> disappears.
> 
> I do not know what Emacs does when copying from clip board. However

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>   http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/vol191/issue5/
> 
> I am just copying the text in "Summary", after that word (from
> "Supervised" to the end of the paragraph).
> 
> 
> Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Running pdftotext over it shows heavily mangled text (things are
misplaced, etc). I get the impression that text was "deduced" from the
laayout after the fact, as if someone running OCR over a print.

Surely some distiller abomination :-(

Regards
- -- tomás
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