[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#524730: problem with text in pdf files created with cups-pdf

[Anders Lagerås]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:22:06 +0200
Volker Behr <behr at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:

> Just some information from upstream:
> I just checked CUPS-PDF 2.5.0 using the CUPS-PDF.ppd with two tests:
> a) printing a textfile directly to a PDF
>    (lp -d CUPS-PDF .bashrc) 
> b) converting a textfile with a2ps to PS and then printing it to PDF
>    (a2ps .bashrc -o - | lp -d CUPS-PDF)
> 
> In either case the text was fully intact and I could copy and paste
> arbitraty sections out of it and do a text-search on it.
If I do that I still get a pdf with rasterised text, which is not
searchable, and no fonts are embedded. But if I don't use CUPS-PDF.ppd,
I choose raw instead of generic as manufacturer, does it work fine, i
get searchable text in the pdf-files. 

> So this might be an issue of the application creating the the original
> document (maybe this application already creates a PS file with text
> being converted to graphics). If that is the case, CUPS-PDF works as
> designed since it never got any text to convert.
I tried different applications and it does not seems to be like that.
 
> BEWARE: the above mentioned tests were NOT done on a Debian system! So
> you should try to reproduce them.
I did.

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Mvh Anders Lagerås
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