ps to pdf and then to text editor

[Paul Smith]

On 9/11/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > > I print to a file, file.ps, a web-page with text. Then, I apply ps2pdf
> > > > and I get file.pdf. However, I cannot copy (from file.pdf) the text to
> > > > a text editor. Can one get a pdf file with copyable text?
> > >
> > > If you are simply looking to get the web page's displayed content to a
> > > text file, can't you simply save to a text file (save as, and select
> > > text files for the type, then give it a .txt extention for
> > > convenience).
> >
> > Thanks, Jacques, but what I really want is to be able of producing a
> > pdf file (from a web-page) with the possibility of copying text to a
> > text editor. Hopefully, Fedora Core will soon make available for users
> > the version 8.54 of Ghostscript, which does not display the reported
> > problem.
> >
> I am not sure but pdftk may have a function that does what you want.

Thanks, Aaron, but, apparently, it does not.

Paul