Producing pdf files with copyable text

[Paul Smith]

On 8/12/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have tried with all available pdf viewers, but the text is not
> > copyable at all. Something seems to be wrong with the method 'print to
> > ps + ps2pdf'.
>
> Let's try for a common target:
>
> Target: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org
>
> Methods:
> 1 - cups-pdf.  Produces copyable text in Adobe Reader
>
> 2 - LOOP extension for FF.  Also produces copyable text
>
> 3 - Openoffice - text *is* copyable, but the formatting is horrible!
>
> 4 - I did 'select all' in FF, made a new OO doc, and pasted it in.
> PDF export produces a file with copyable text, and decent formatting.
>
> In summary, I was able to produce a PDF w/copyable text using all four
> methods.  #3 looked like hell, but the text was there.  Seems like #4
> ought to Just Work.  I'm curious - can anyone can duplicate my
> results?  I went into further detail about each method previously.
>
> Chris
>
> PS - I've found that not all pages work with method #1 - on some pages
> (gmail, e.g.), the text appears to be copyable, but it is in fact
> copying gibberish to the clipboard.  By gibberish, I mean those nice
> little unicode character boxes that you see when your font can't do
> UTF-8.

Here is the pdf file that I obtain with method 1 (cups-pdf).

Paul
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