Thank you Bhante,
Is there a way to convert to unicode at the PDF level, or are we stuck with this problem?
Mike
Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?
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Re: Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?
I am afraid that we're stuck with it. From the above link.
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.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.
Blog • Pāli Fonts • In This Very Life • Buddhist Chronicles • Software (Upasampadā: 24th June, 1979)
Re: Why isn't the Visuddhimagga free?
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.
Mike
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.
Mike