> ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:13:05 PM > Subject: Re: Producing pdf files with copyable text > On 8/12/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>From what has been said recently in the thread, it seems likely that the > > fonts you use are the issue, in that the font either has to be so standard > > that it is assumed always available, or it must be embedded if allowed, or > > the pdf must be bitmapped where that font is used. Possibly the output of > > pdffonts will tell you what is going on. By default, ps2pdf won't embed > > the "14 standard fonts" (Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol, ZapfDingbats) > > -- see /user/share/doc/ghostscript*/Ps2pdf.htm. > > Thanks, Nelson. The output of pdffonts in the case of the file that I > have just sent is > > $ pdffonts teste1.pdf > name type emb sub uni object ID > ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- > YBWBJD+DejaVu_Serif.Book.0.0.34174.0.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 17 0 > WFRXYX+Times_New_Roman.Regular.0.0.50aac.e036.Set0 Type 1C yes > yes no 9 0 > BIABFC+Times_New_Roman.Bold.0.0.5184c.0.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 13 0 > PGUGBG+DejaVu_Sans.Book.0.0.7ec48.0.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 11 0 > XGQFDG+Courier.Regular.0.0.1ec70.42f7.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 15 0 > $ > > Paul > Paul, I tried out printing the page that Chris referred http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org The resulting pdf's text is copyable. I did it from printing Postscript/default. Then using ps2pdf from command line: [olivares@localhost Documents]$ ps2pdf fedora-people.ps [olivares@localhost Documents]$ evince fedora-people.pdf & The pdf is named fedora-people.pdf and is attached to this message. To all members in the list, I will cool down and stop getting pdf happing attaching pdf's on this thread. I apologize if It seems that I am getting carried away with my messages. Thanks for your consideration. Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/
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