On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 10:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 9/11/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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? > > > > If you are simply looking to get the web page's displayed content to a > > text file, can't you simply save to a text file (save as, and select > > text files for the type, then give it a .txt extention for > > convenience). > > 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. > > Paul > I am not sure but pdftk may have a function that does what you want. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
