Just some information from upstream: I just checked CUPS-PDF 2.5.0 using the CUPS-PDF.ppd with two tests: a) printing a textfile directly to a PDF (lp -d CUPS-PDF .bashrc) b) converting a textfile with a2ps to PS and then printing it to PDF (a2ps .bashrc -o - | lp -d CUPS-PDF)
In either case the text was fully intact and I could copy and paste arbitraty sections out of it and do a text-search on it. So this might be an issue of the application creating the the original document (maybe this application already creates a PS file with text being converted to graphics). If that is the case, CUPS-PDF works as designed since it never got any text to convert. BEWARE: the above mentioned tests were NOT done on a Debian system! So you should try to reproduce them. Regards, Volker -- Dr. rer. nat. Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-31-85766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax) On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 15:40 +0200, Anders Lagerås wrote: > Package: cups-pdf > Version: 2.5.0-1 > Severity: important > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If CUPS-PDF.ppd is used as recommended does not the pdf files created contain > text, instead is everthing seems to be handled as graphics, resulting in large > non searchable pdf files. > > - -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on: > ii cups 1.3.10-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) > - > ii cups-client 1.3.10-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) > - > ii ghostscript 8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript > PostScript/PDF > ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libpaper-utils 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper > charact > > cups-pdf recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests: > pn system-config-printer-gnome | <none> (no description available) > > - -- no debconf information > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAknrKdwACgkQw5UvgfnzqGq0NgCePLg2Fp8P4kSt64wJ+hyDNQQv > MZcAnRtqxI98Ieyg77ng6hpsRUNVhUtu > =W7Ed > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
