Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Copy and Paste Character Substitution

[oezi]

I would like to improve how text from my PDF can be copy/pasted. In particular I have trouble with

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``quotation''

and ligatures fi, ff, etc.

I am using T1 fontenc, which looks nice but when I copy from the following MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}   
\begin{document} 
``finding the buffet''
\end{document}

and paste into an UTF-8 text editor I get:

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000000019  E2 80 9C EF AC 81 6E 64-69 6E 67 20 74 68 65 20   |“finding the |
000000029  62 75 EF AC 80 65 74 E2-80 9D                     |buffet”      |

But I would much rather get

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0000000C1  22 66 69 6E 64 69 6E 67-20 74 68 65 20 62 75 66   |"finding the buf|
0000000D1  66 65 74 22                                       |fet"            |

I am not sure it is possible to include in the PDF another encoding of characters meant for copying.

Just to clarify:
* Ligatures look beautiful and I want to keep them
* Only copy and paste could be better
* Acrobat is smart about it and resolves the letters, but other readers have more problems.

Any ideas?

[localghost]

Try with cmap and/or microtype.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[oezi]

Thank you Thorsten!

That did the trick!

[oezi]

Just in case anybody has the same problem:

Put

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\usepackage{cmap}

at the top of your latex file. To change `` and '' to " edit t1.cmap in your LaTeX installation by adding the following two lines:

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<10> <0022>
<11> <0022>

While Acrobat does not seem to care, evince and Foxit now copy "straight" quotes.

[localghost]

Thank you Thomas! […]

Who is Thomas?

[oezi]

Sorry Thorsten! Of course I meant you!