On Thu 09 May 2019 at 18:05:51 -0500, Neil Ormos wrote: > Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf > Version: 3.0.1-5 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > In prior bug reports, users complained that CUPS-PDF or > printer-driver-cups-pdf produced PDF files in which text was > represented in image format, or was not searchable. > > In a message posted > > "Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:40:21 +0000", > > closing bugs 658004, 813618, 847462, and 857165, there was a reference > to printer-driver-cups-pdf_3.0.1-3, and in another message there was a > suggestion that the problem is fixed in that version. > > I have installed printer-driver-cups-pdf_3.0.1-5 (the current version > distributed in Buster), and it appears that *whatever* is stored in > the PDF files produced by printer-driver-cups-pdf, it's not searchable > text. Also, when these files are processed by pdftotext, the results > do not contain recognizable text. > > This was not a problem with the cups-pdf version 2.5.0-16 in Squeeze. > > I tested using Firefox 44.0b3 to print an extremely simple HTML page > to the CUPS PDF "driver". (That particular ancient version of Firefox > runs in both Squeeze and Stretch.) > > Can this be fixed, short of installing a non-Debian version of > CUPS-PDF-to-PDF or the like, such as that advertised at > > https://github.com/alexivkin/CUPS-PDF-to-PDF > > ?
Thank you for your report, Neil. Please post the output of 'lpoptions -p PDF' and, for a printed HTML page, what 'pdfinfo <PDF_file> gives. Regards, Brian.
