Hi!

I was wondering if there is a pdf Viewer that allows to copy correctly a text in German (with letter like ä and ö and ß) into an Editor's file. I use Evince and Xpdf and when I copy a text written in German into gedit, the german letters are not copied correctly.

Thanks for any advice.

I don't think it's the pdf viewer. My guess is that Evince is using different locale setting than that of the pdf file's; one example of my own is, when my system uses finnish (utf8) and I copy a file from a finnish Windows system (iso-8859-1(5)), all scandinavian letters (for example if the filename contains ä,ö or å) get corrupted (turn into ? or something weird). The same is if I run an irc client that won't let me configure the locale used; if it uses utf8, all the Windows irc users (who use iso-8859-1(5) locale) don't see my scandinavian letters correctly, and vice versa (usually).

I suggest you try to use Evince under the same locale the pdf is written in, or try one of the following locales:

iso-8859-1
iso-8859-15

that could help (I hope so)..well if that's not helping, I hope somebody gives you a swift, well-working answer

Have a nice day,

Juho

Thanks for your answer. How may I use or install such locales like iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15?

Does a pdf-writer exist for linux actually?

Thanks.

Several. Scribus would be a good option. That aside you can pretty much
generate PDF from any program; all you need is to a) either create a PDF
print target in cups or b) choose a postscript-printer, print to a file
and use ps2pdf to convert the result.


Cheers,
Tink

I'm not interested in a pdf-writer to create pdf files (I use latex for that) but a pdf-writer in order to write on pdf-files that I didn't create myself.
I'll try Scribus. Thanks for the tipp.

You want to edit an existing .pdf file then. As far as I know Adobe has the patent to that.

Adobe reader, Kpdf and others will allow you to copy out of an existing .pdf. Copy what you want to Open office, AbiWord or another editor that will create .pdf files, format it the way you want, then make a .pdf out of it. Or open it and save it as .ps then you can edit it.

If you want to edit .pdf on the fly then you need Adobe full blown. Unless something has changed.

You can also edit PDF fiels with KOffice.