On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Tony Lambley wrote:

> > Ghostscript only produces bitmapped PDFs, which are not searchable.
>
> Can you clarify on this? I've used gs to generate PDF docs for most European
> latin1 countries plus Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Greece and
> Turkey, without having a single character rendered as a bitmap, all
> correctly encode to iso-8859-1, 2, 5, 7 and 9.

After converting using ps2pdf or gs open the resulting PDF in acrobat and
use the find in page feature.  It never finds words that are in the
document.  The PDF is a graphic, not text, when converted by gs.

James Rich
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