Producing pdf files with copyable text
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 12 21:36:04 UTC 2007
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:32:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Producing pdf files with copyable text
>
> 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.
>
> Paul
>
> --
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
A print error occurred. Error message received from system:
Abnormal process termination (gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$out{/home/olivares/print.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -c .setpdfwrite -f '/tmp/kde-olivares/kdeprint_sVYpo2Vb' ).
The other method of using select all copy and add paste to text editor gets the following garbage:
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taekut peolwaaiin/coo/coGoGt
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I used ps2pdf option with the following option and it did not work
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true gmail.ps
If I can find something that succeeds in creating a copyable text pdf, I'll share it with the list. Otherwise, I have failed :(
Regards,
Antonio
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ echo $(date +%Y/%m/%d~%H:%M:%S)
2007/08/12~16:30:05
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ uname -iprm
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 athlon i386
[olivares at localhost Documents]$
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