reassign 425405 ghostscript found 425405 gs-esp/8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 found 425405 ghostscript/9.00~dfsg-2 retitle 425405 ps2pdf: produces unsearchable PDFs when given unusual fonts severity 425405 normal tags 425405 + confirmed upstream quit
Hi,
Volker Christian Behr wrote:
> I can reproduce this issue if you use exotic fonts in OpenOffice. Using
> Arial for example the output is perfectly searchable by a PDF-viewer.
>
> I have to check why GS does not simply replace the font by some other it
> knows (or what exactly is causing the issue, if not the font unknown to
> GS).
Thanks. I tried using lowriter to make an example (test.ps),
converted it to PDF with "ps2pdf test.ps" (test.pdf), and indeed, the
result is not searchable in evince.
By contrast,
man -t time >time.ps
ps2pdf time.ps
produces a searchable PDF.
So this is a bug or missing feature. Hints or other insights toward
implementing this would be welcome.
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