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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Entity -> fo -> pdf with a Unicode font..


Fredrik Svensson wrote:

> The penalty seems to be "Search, index, and cut-and-paste operations in the
> output document will produce incorrect results." but I hope it will not be too
> bad.
> 
> Oops copy-paste generates characters like \U00100028  etc...
> 
> Are there any other way ?

Commercial renderers like XEP and XSL Formatter generate PDFs with 
correct glyph -> character mapping tables.

> The comment was "(FOP currently doesn't emit the /ToUnicode table which is
> necessary for copy/paste to work.)"

You can grab patches from

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5335

and recompile FOP yourself.

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