Producing pdf files with copyable text

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Aug 12 10:40:45 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 00:53 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, I wonder if the complexity of the document plays a factor?  Simple
margins, etc., would be easy to implement in Postscript and PDF, other
things might not be.

You can view Postscript files directly in applications like Evince, you
could try some Postscript testing, before adding PDF to the equation.

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