[OS X TeX] Feature request on TeXShop's "Experiment" mechanism

[Markus Klyver]

Who copy pastes from a PDF anyway? PDF is used for one thing – reading. If you want to copy, edit or modify the text, use the source TeX file.

> From: will.adams at frycomm.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:27:49 -0400
> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Feature request on TeXShop's "Experiment" mechanism
> 
> On May 29, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Markus Klyver wrote:
> 
> > Why not just use the print feature of the OS itself (avalible with command ⌘ + p, and print)?
> 
> One reason not to use that feature is that it will in certain circumstances re-encode the font and make it impossible to copy-paste properly from the resultant .pdf
> 
> William
> 
> (who is getting really annoyed about having to use brain cells to memorise such minutiae and really wishes these things would just work properly and sensibly)
> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
> Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
> 
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