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It used to be a problem that you couldn't cut and paste text from TeX-generated PDFs, and I assume this would be a problem for screen readers. I think the dvi-
by dubya 8y ago
It used to be a problem that you couldn't cut and paste text from TeX-generated PDFs, and I assume this would be a problem for screen readers. I think the dvi->pdf conversion produced a PDF consisting mostly of coordinates and characters (in a non-standard encoding), which PDF readers couldn't put back together into words. This seems mostly fixed on recent pdfs, but I don't know if it's TeX (pdflatex?) or the readers that have gotten smarter.
Funnily, Donald Knuth's AoCP fascicles ship as postscript files, which Preview.app converts to PDFs that can't be copied from.
- CJefferson 8y agoIt's not at all fixed. It's slightly better than it was, but anything non-trivial (tables, columns) is often still unreadable.
- c4h8o3del 8y agoIf you're using a screen reader anyway, why not export to text instead of pdf? You're just wasting more storage for no benefit you can perceive. This relies on what should be a reasonable assumption that the latex source is provided.