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More importantly (to me anyway), copying large swaths of text is so much more reliable in a word doc. Copying text in a pdf (derived from PowerPoint no less) is
by sosborn 5y ago
More importantly (to me anyway), copying large swaths of text is so much more reliable in a word doc. Copying text in a pdf (derived from PowerPoint no less) is a special hell.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoUnbelievable, I've never copied text from a PDF without some error. It's baffling how broken that system is compared to say, text selection in web browsers. If you start doing fancy CSS tricks you can break that too, of course.
- db48x 5y agoIn a PDF, every single glyph could be independently positioned. Most aren’t quite that pathological, but frequently every text run is independent.
- PaulHoule 5y agoA PDF can contain metadata that correctly sequences the characters which is great for cut-n-paste, accessibility and reflowing the text. That metadata is frequently absent and the mechanism for incorporating it is by no means simple.