Producing pdf files with copyable text

[Paul Smith]

On 8/12/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > and my cups-pdf only produces bitmapped pdfs.
>
> In the past, I've had mixed results.  I don't recall all the ins and
> outs, but the content created, and what applications I used, had an
> effect.
>
> Did you try creating a document with the ordinary fonts used in PDF
> files (Times, etc.), or ones that it'll have to embed or pre-render?

I just print to a file as ps and then I use ps2pdf. I have just tried
this method with a OOo document written with Times New Roman, but
again the resulting pdf is bitmapped. The problem maybe located in the
way Linux produces the ps file and not in ps2pdf.

> And what programs have you tried to print a PDF file with?

Firefox and Opera.

Paul