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ARCHIVED. NOT MAINTAINED. Themeable Markdown Converter (Print to PDF, HTML, JPEG or PNG)
https://atom.io/packages/markdown-themeable-pdf
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Text in generated PDF is not selectable #20

Closed dmurat closed 8 years ago

dmurat commented 8 years ago

I can't select text in generated PDF. Is this deliberately, or I'm doing something wrong?

cakebake commented 8 years ago

This is due to the used program with which you open a PDF. The atom pdf-package does not permit it, but if you eg. with Adobe Acrobat Reader, your text is selectable. :)

dmurat commented 8 years ago

Actually, it is not. Opening in Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the first things that I've tried. In addition, file is 14 megs in size, which is way to much. It looks like it is one big picture, not text.

Didn't mentioned previously, I'm using Atom on OSX.

cakebake commented 8 years ago

Sorry, but I'm not using OSX and can not test that. Did you accidentally exported as graphics instead of PDF? ^^ The Export definitely works with selectable text.

cakebake commented 8 years ago

Windows, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 2015 Version | Version 2015.009.20077

unbenannt

dmurat commented 8 years ago

I've just used the command from right-click menu on markdown file. Hmm, will try on windows and will report back.

dmurat commented 8 years ago

Yes, it works on Windows. Main difference between generated PDFs is that one from Windows does have embedded fonts, while one from OSX does not.

I can't debug this further, since I don't know how. If some kind of logging can be turned on, maybe that can be helpful. Again, I don't know how.

cakebake commented 8 years ago

I would be interested if a PDF that you have created under Windows, behaves well in OSX.

Unfortunately, I can not alter the fact anyway. :/ The Issue would have to go to phantom.js.

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs