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