Rijk, PDF can contain CIDFonts, but Postscript Level 2 cannot (CIDFonts are a Postscript Language Level 3 feature). ps2write is a Level 2 output device (hence "2" is ps2write).
So ps2write is *removing* the CIDFonts and (I think) "flattenning" them to multiple "normal" fonts, but in doing so, all the character encoding information is lost. We (Ghostscript) have tentative plans for a ps3write device, but too many other projects come first. There has been a trend for applications (both commercial and open source) to pointlessly use Type 2 CIDFonts instead of normal TrueType fonts - I say pointlessly because, CIDFonts require a heck of a lot more processing in the interpreter, compared to a normal font, so unless you actually *need* multibyte fonts, it just needlessly slows down processing the file. Chris -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/942866 Title: Ubuntu 11.10: printing to PDF produces unsearchable PDF (contrary to 10.04) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/942866/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
