Cutting and Pasting Cyrillic Text

[Brewer, Michael]

Benjamin Sher suggested that I send my response to him to the entire list.
Apologies to those less interested in these technical matters.

mb

Michael Brewer
German & Slavic Studies Librarian
University of Arizona Library, A210
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Fax 520.621.9733
Voice 520.621.9919
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu

On 7 Nov 2002 at 7:17, Brewer, Michael wrote:

> Benjamin,
>
> There is a way around cutting and pasting Cyrillic text.  It does not
> normally work between different software programs (unless they are all
> Microsoft or some other vendor), as the cut text is translated into the
> computer's system font (which does not include the Cyrillic range of
> characters for English language versions of Windows) and so then comes up
as
> something other than Cyrillic when pasted.  If you have the Russian
version
> of Windows installed, I would assume you would not have the problem (but
> might have it cutting and pasting English text).  There is a freeware
> software that allows one to cut and paste Cyrillic, among other things.
It
> is called "Otpad."  Just plug that into Google and you will find it.  It
can
> work quite nicely. (I recently had to cut and paste a huge amount of a
Word
> file into Dreamweaver.  This is the only way I could get it to work and
keep
> the Cyrillic).
>
> Good luck.
>
> mb
>
> Michael Brewer
> German & Slavic Studies Librarian
> University of Arizona Library, A210
> 1510 E. University
> P.O. Box 210055
> Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
> Fax 520.621.9733
> Voice 520.621.9919
> brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:sher07 at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:40 AM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] PDF -- Copying and pasting from Acrobat Reader 5 to
> MSWord
>
> Dear friends:
>
> While talking to a computer programmer earlier this evening
> about a project we are working on, I discovered to my
> delight that you CAN copy and paste from any Roman
> character TEXT in Acrobat Reader 5.05 (that's the latest
> version available for free for Windows, Mac and Linux from
> http://www.acrobat.com) to MSWord (or, I'd assume, to
> WordPerfect or other word processors). Open any English-
> language PDF file in the free Acrobat Reader. On the
> toolbar, right next to the magnifying glass, you'll see a big T
> and another square icon right next to it. Click on the T with
> you mouse, then highlight any text in your document. Now
> go to Edit, Copy in Acrobat, copy it, then open MSWord and
> paste it into a blank document. Presto! There is the text!
> You can now edit it, format it, do whatever you want to with
> it.
>
> As if this were not enough, you can also copy and paste
> GRAPHICS from a PDF document. Open a PDF document
> with some graphics or pictures in it. Click on the icon to the
> right of the T, then draw a line around any graphics, copy it
> and paste it into MSWord. Incredible!
>
> The only drawback is Cyrillic. You cannot normally copy and
> paste Cyrillic TEXT in Acrobat. However, there is a
> workaround:
>
> You can always copy any Cyrillic text as a GRAPHIC, that
> is, click on the graphic icon in the Acrobat toolbar (the one
> right next to the T -- see above) and draw a line with your
> mouse around any Cyrillic TEXT. Copy it (Edit, Copy) and
> paste it into any document in Word (or WordPerfect). It will
> paste easily enough, but you can NOT manipulate it, i.e.
> edit it in any way except by moving the "graphic" block as a
> whole.
>
> One interesting footnote: The AdobePDFWriter printer
> driver, available to many of you who have an Adobe product
> (especially the Adobe Photo Deluxe program that comes
> with many scanners) will save a document in PDF format
> (e.g. in MSWord -- see my earlier message on this) but only
> Roman character texts. It will produce only computer
> garbage when you attempt to save a Cyrillic text in MSWord
> in PDF format. However, the PDF995 printer driver WILL
> save an MSWord Cyrillic document in PDF format. I've
> tested both and the PDF995 version will show up in glorious
> Cyrillic in Acrobat after being created in MSWord (for step-
> by-step instructions on how to use either of these printer
> drivers in MSWord or any program, please see my earlier
> messages to the list).
>
> All of the programs that I have mentioned above and in
> earlier messages are absolutely FREE. And most can be
> used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes
> (read the license terms for each).
>
> Hope this helps those who need this kind of help.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> sher07 at mindspring.com
>
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> sher07 at mindspring.com
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