Jack Byers byersj@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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?
> 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.
xpdf has facility to select and copy an arbitray rectangular region from
any page
of any (i think) pdf file, however created.
This feature is very handy for copying out selected text regions from
multi-column pdf pages
yum install xpdf
hth
Jack
