On 8/12/07, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To see the problem that I am now mentioning, please try to produce a > > pdf of the GMail frontpage: > > > > www.gmail.com > > > > which is rendered on Firefox with Liberation Fonts, in case you have > > them installed. > > You are absolutely correct, I am trying very hard to make it copyable but all I get is GIGO. > Garbage In Garbage Out > > Using ps2pdf, all the copyable text I get is : > > > Welcome to Gmail https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive... > 1 of 1 08/12/2007 03:57 PM > > > Using Konqueror, I get the message that you got [snip] > A print error occurred. Error message received from system: > > I used ps2pdf option with the following option and it did not work > > [olivares@localhost Documents]$ ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true gmail.ps The liberation fonts are in effect embedded in the pdf file, but no text is copyable: $ pdffonts gmail.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- WINDHK+Liberation_Sans.Bold.0.0.10b6c.9a62.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 13 0 TAMSTW+Liberation_Sans.Regular.0.0.1b044.b87a.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 11 0 GIYRNY+Liberation_Serif.Regular.0.0.261ac.b87a.Set0 Type 1C yes yes no 8 0 $ Paul
