Producing pdf files with copyable text
Chris Mohler
cr33dog at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 18:47:40 UTC 2007
On 8/12/07, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Some web pages will not let you have copyable text from the resultant pdf, the one you chose does of course. Why not try the following page:
>
> http://www.esmas.com/deportes/futbol/652661.html
Yes - I picked a fairly easy (and short) page.
Your example can be converted using method #2 - the LOOP extension for
FF. It's 1.6 MB, but can be copied from, and the images and layout
are intact.
I'm not sure how to proceed with Paul's problem, but I think we've
narrowed it down to a font issue at least. Not sure if this is
useful, but a quick list of installed fonts/font packages:
# yum list *font*
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Installed Packages
alfont.i386 2.0.6-2.fc7 installed
artwiz-aleczapka-fonts.noarch 1.3-5.fc6 installed
bitmap-fonts.noarch 0.3-5.1.2.fc7 installed
bitstream-vera-fonts.noarch 1.10-7 installed
chkfontpath.i386 1.10.1-1.1 installed
dejavu-lgc-fonts.noarch 2.15-1 installed
fontconfig.i386 2.4.2-3.fc7 installed
fontconfig-devel.i386 2.4.2-3.fc7 installed
fontforge.i386 20061220-1.fc7 installed
fonts-ISO8859-2.noarch 1.0-17.1 installed
fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi.noarch 1.0-17.1 installed
fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi.noarch 1.0-17.1 installed
fonts-KOI8-R.noarch 1.0-9.1.1 installed
fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch 1.0-9.1.1 installed
fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch 1.0-9.1.1 installed
fonts-arabic.noarch 2.0-5.fc7 installed
fonts-bengali.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-chinese.noarch 3.03-4.fc7 installed
fonts-gujarati.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-hebrew.noarch 0.100-4.1.1 installed
fonts-hebrew-fancy.noarch 0.20051122-2.fc7 installed
fonts-hindi.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-japanese.noarch 0.20061016-6.fc7 installed
fonts-kannada.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-korean.noarch 1.0.11-9.1.1 installed
fonts-malayalam.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-oriya.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-punjabi.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-sinhala.noarch 0.2.2-1.fc7 installed
fonts-tamil.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-telugu.noarch 2.1.5-1.fc7 installed
fonts-truetype-apl.i386 4.20.2-19.fc7 installed
fonts-x11-apl.i386 4.20.2-19.fc7 installed
fontypython.noarch 0.2.0-6.fc7 installed
ghostscript-fonts.noarch 5.50-16.fc7 installed
libXfont.i386 1.2.9-2.fc7 installed
libXfontcache.i386 1.0.4-1.fc7 installed
liberation-fonts.noarch 0.1-9.fc7 installed
libfontenc.i386 1.0.4-2.fc7 installed
mathml-fonts.noarch 1.0-21.fc6 installed
tetex-fonts.i386 3.0-39.fc7 installed
urw-fonts.noarch 2.3-6.1.1 installed
xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 1:7.1-5.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-base.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype.noarch 7.1-3.fc7 installed
I removed everything in ~/.fonts before testing...
Chris
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