Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?

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Re: Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?

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Thank you Bhante,

Is there a way to convert to unicode at the PDF level, or are we stuck with this problem?

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Re: Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?

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I am afraid that we're stuck with it. From the above link.
Printed publications use a special “BPS” family of fonts. These feature the Pali diacritical characters (such as a-macron or m-dot-below) mapped to the lower 256 character positions. It was necessary to create these fonts because our publishing software (Framemaker® 5.5.6 or Pagemaker® 6.5 or 7.0) do not support Unicode. The BPS encoding is shown below.
I suppose I could offer to reformat the book for them in PagePlus or LibreOffice, but its not a small undertaking even if they would agree to it.
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Re: Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?

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Thank you for the information, Bhante,

My approach under such circumstances is to locate the word I want to search for in the index, then cut and paste it into the search box.

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