Surely the fact that copying text from pdf files brings with it the text breaks from the pdf has to be at least a somewhat noticable dampener on productivity/efficiency in all kinds of industries, politics, etc across the world?
Right?
Or is this a Linux phenomenon?
I really wish there was a way to avoid this. Or that I could code and could make a tiny app where you just paste text and it auto removes single text breaks.
@forteller On Windows I use Ctrl + Shift + V when pasting, to paste without formatting. Alternatively Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V.
I see lots of people online saying that line breaks are not handled kn the same way than other formatting, but it is worth a try.
@Luuni Thanks, I did try. (It's c+s+v in Linux too) But no, that doesn't work, which I think makes sense, actually.
@forteller It's fun to read the mailing list discussions of the early 1990s where everyone agreed PDF was a terrible format and surely it would never be widely adopted.
@forteller Don't the paragraph breaks disappear if you save/convert it to plaintext?
@forteller pure basic PDF doesn't have a concept of text, it's basically just positioning individual letters, the fact that viewers recognize this as a block of text is a heuristic measure
This might have changed in later standards, especially with accessibility, but it's not mandatory. It's a format meant for exchanging and viewing, not used in an editing pipeline
