On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:22:06 +0200 Volker Behr <b...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> 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. If I do that I still get a pdf with rasterised text, which is not searchable, and no fonts are embedded. But if I don't use CUPS-PDF.ppd, I choose raw instead of generic as manufacturer, does it work fine, i get searchable text in the pdf-files. > 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. I tried different applications and it does not seems to be like that. > BEWARE: the above mentioned tests were NOT done on a Debian system! So > you should try to reproduce them. I did. -- Mvh Anders Lagerås
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