CTAN Sumbission -- cmap package: create searchable PDF files

[Robin Fairbairns]

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> I've uploaded the file cmap.tar.gz into the incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. It is a new (version 1.0a) "cmap" package.
> The license is LPPL.
> 
> The cmap package is to be used with pdf(e)latex and provides CMap
> files for various LaTeX font encodings (currently, T1, T2A, T2B, T2C,
> T5; this list will grow in the future) and a latex package which adds
> the /ToUnicode entries into the font dictionaries of fonts used in the
> document on the fly, making the resulting PDF files "searchable" and
> "cut-and-pasteable" in Acrobat Reader and other PDF previewers.
> 
> Thus, when the document uses Type 1 fonts like cm-super or other fonts
> in standard font encodings, teh PDF files will contain the additional
> information in the form of CMap entries which will define the mappings
> from LaTeX font encodings to Unicode, making functions like search in
> PDF and cut-and-paste from PDF to other applications work properly.
> 
> Please install it in the CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap
> directory.
> 
> Contributions and/or requests for other font encodings support, as
> well as user feedback/bug reports are welcome.
> 
> P.S. currently, this package is mirrored to
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2/etc/cmap; i think that a more
> generic location in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap is better,
> since the package is of general use. i'll remove it from the T2
> package once it will be installed on
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap

i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team