[LINK] RFI: Readability of Report on Anti-Terrorism Bill

[Peter Hughes]

Hi Roger,

I am using OSX (10.4.3) and preview.

On 29/11/2005, at 3:22 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:

>
> The Senate Committee's report is 1.7MB of PDF.
>
> I reported to them this morning that it isn't being handled  
> properly by current versions of Preview and Acrobat under Mac OSX.
>
> He's got it so that it now works under *old* versions of Acrobat  
> under Mac OS9.
>
> Can other people read it, copy-and-paste contents, and find text?

No problem so far in reading it, no problem in finding some simple  
search terms, and I found that I could copy and paste into BBEdit.  
BUT there was a very strange artefact early on. All the text in bold  
in the executive summary and recommendations is rendered as a series  
of dingbats in my text editor, whereas body text from later in the  
report copies and pastes fine. I assume this is to do with the font  
used in the pdf file?


All the best,

P.
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