posted by huyilin on February 21, 2014 | 4 comments
I am wondering if anyone knows how to ungarble Chinese characters in documents (I work on a Mac). When copying passages from a pdf file and pasting them into word or Safari, the text becomes illegible. Thanks for any pointers!
Hi David! The Adobe pdf file was sent through dropbox to my iMac (Safari version 5.1.10). Whatever I copy from there ends up garbled on the iMac. On the iPadAir, however, everything transfers fine. Mystery. I am working on a translation and need to have access to the text on the Mac. I wonder if it is the method of sending that affects the file. The last large pdf file sent to me came through "Goodreader" and did not have the problem of garbled Hanzi.
Thank you so much for any ideas! :-)
The first pdf is an actual printed book, the second a word.doc (from what I can tell). Thanks!
Hey Huyilin,What kind of PDF file? I've had to mess around with a number of PDF generation libraries in the past and they all become a huge pain when dealing with Chinese characters.Copy & paste functionality is not part of the core document format either, so it used to only be supported by Adobe software and not other applications. There is more support for it now, but no guarantees. And since the data tends to get copied by the operating system there is no guarantee that the receiving application will even know how to interpret it.You share any details on your setup?