[reportlab-users] Reportlab text not searchable in Apple OSX Preview.App? but searchable in Acrobat and google-pdf viewer ?

[Robin Becker]

Bill Janssen wrote:

> hari jayaram <harijay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

>> I noticed however that the text laden pdfs I am rendering are not searchable

>> using Apple Mac (Leopard) OSX Preview.App

>>

>> When I use the built in search within Preview.App only single characters

>> light up ( only single characters show matches like a , b , c , d ) No words

>> light up..

> 

> Works fine for me, generating PDFs with ReportLab 2.2 and searching with Preview.

> 

> I add my text to the PDF a word at a time, with this code:

> 

>     textobj = mycanvas.beginText(word.left, word.baseline)

>     textobj.setTextRenderMode(INVISIBLE_MODE)

>     textstring = word.text.strip().encode('latin-1', 'replace')

>     textobj.textLines(textstring)

>     mycanvas.drawText(textobj)

> 

> Incidentally, can I switch to UTF-8 these days?

> 

> Bill

modern reportlab allows utf8 str or unicode in most places.
-- 
Robin Becker