On 9/15/06, Jack Byers <byersj@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > 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
Thanks, Jack. However, the problem is that when I paste what I copied from the pdf file (created as I described before), I get a sequence of rubbish, i.e., the ancient version of ghostscript offered by FC5 produces a not fine PS file. The reported problem does not occur with the most recent version of ghostscript. Paul
