Producing pdf files with copyable text

[Antonio Olivares]

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:13:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Producing pdf files with copyable text
> 
On 8/12/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> >>From what has been said recently in the thread, it seems likely that the
> > fonts you use are the issue, in that the font either has to be so standard
> > that it is assumed always available, or it must be embedded if allowed, or
> > the pdf must be bitmapped where that font is used.  Possibly the output of
> > pdffonts will tell you what is going on.  By default, ps2pdf won't embed
> > the "14 standard fonts" (Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol, ZapfDingbats)
> > -- see /user/share/doc/ghostscript*/Ps2pdf.htm.
> 
> Thanks, Nelson. The output of pdffonts in the case of the file that I
> have just sent is
> 
> $ pdffonts teste1.pdf
> name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
> YBWBJD+DejaVu_Serif.Book.0.0.34174.0.Set0 Type 1C      yes yes no      17  0
> WFRXYX+Times_New_Roman.Regular.0.0.50aac.e036.Set0 Type 1C      yes
> yes no       9  0
> BIABFC+Times_New_Roman.Bold.0.0.5184c.0.Set0 Type 1C      yes yes no      13  0
> PGUGBG+DejaVu_Sans.Book.0.0.7ec48.0.Set0 Type 1C      yes yes no      11  0
> XGQFDG+Courier.Regular.0.0.1ec70.42f7.Set0 Type 1C      yes yes no      15  0
> $
> 
> Paul
> 

Paul,

I tried out printing the page that Chris referred 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org

The resulting pdf's text is copyable.  I did it from printing Postscript/default.  Then using ps2pdf from command line:

[olivares at localhost Documents]$ ps2pdf fedora-people.ps 
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ evince fedora-people.pdf &

The pdf is named fedora-people.pdf and is attached to this message.

To all members in the list, I will cool down and stop getting pdf happing attaching pdf's on this thread.  I apologize if It seems that I am getting carried away with my messages.  Thanks for your consideration.  

Regards,

Antonio 





       
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