-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Brian wrote:
[...] > Although it is a different topic > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066535/ps2pdf-creates-a-very-big-pdf-file-from-paps-created-ps-file > > backs up your "pretty funny" feeling. KenS is a Ghostscript developer. Thanks for the link. - From a cursory look at the .ps I had that impression: "The problem is the paps file, it doesn't actually contain any text at all, in a PostScript sense. Each character is stored as a procedure, where a path is drawn and then filled. This is NOT stored in a font, just in a dictionary." so paps basically "paints" the text. Yikes. I still hoped to be wrong :-( > Maybe this new version does not fix mouse copying from a PDF generated > from paps' PS but it isn't in unstable anyway. (Furthermore, paps isn't > in testing due to a FTBFS). Let's hope. In the meantime use a2ps (but I don't know how well that handles Unicode/UTF-8). Perhaps paps's author had a strong reason to do it that way. regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlfisZ4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY+MgCfUsaNI7JFPUhwjbks/li+XC6l VtQAn3gcMYQQ8irb1YuRi1EpyPCfaWOD =HGZ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
