Producing pdf files with copyable text

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 August 2007, Paul Smith wrote:
>Thanks to all for your help and patience. The problem is finally solved!
>
>The cause of the problem was the fact that I had msttcorefonts
>installed. After I removed them, I could produce a pdf file with
>copyable text from
>
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org
>
>I have to do an inspection to see whether I have other superfluous
>fonts installed. Could someone please tell me the minimal set of fonts
>that one should have installed to have F7 working fine?
>
>Paul
>
Paul, your comment just triggered a memory from when I installed FC6 on this 
box.  It seems there are _two_ versions of msttcorefonts extant carrying an 
identical version number.  One is a tarball and one is an rpm, and the rpm 
seems to be broken although I compared them and they compared very well 
except the rpm was smaller as it was missing 2 fonts that were in the M$ 
tarball.

I was never able to make them work, and my system was largely hosed, when I 
had installed the version (same version number IIRC) that is available 
through the yum/smart/rpm repositories after installing FC6 here.

Knowing I had previously made it work very well on an FC2 system, I bit the 
bullet and went to the M$ site and downloaded their version and installed it.

It worked flawlessly, and still is right now.

I also have half a gigabyte of fancy fonts from goldenweb.it, all of which 
work very nicely indeed in OOo.

>On 8/12/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/12/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Some web pages will not let you have copyable text from the resultant
>> > > pdf, the one you chose does of course.  Why not try the following
>> > > page:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.esmas.com/deportes/futbol/652661.html
>> >
>> > Yes - I picked a fairly easy (and short) page.
>> >
>> > Your example can be converted using method #2 - the LOOP extension for
>> > FF.  It's 1.6 MB, but can be copied from, and the images and layout
>> > are intact.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure how to proceed with Paul's problem, but I think we've
>> > narrowed it down to a font issue at least.  Not sure if this is
>> > useful, but a quick list of installed fonts/font packages:
>>
>> I have installed all your fonts, but no progress. What is the package
>> that contains the following fonts:
>>
>> BIABFC+Nimbus_Roman_No9_L.Bold.0.0.234ee.67d7.Set0 Type 1C      yes
>> yes no      12  0
>> AKCXNM+Nimbus_Roman_No9_L.Regular.0.0.23ec4.b59e.Set0 Type 1C      yes
>> yes no       8  0
>>
>> Paul



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