I have revisited this issue, using UBuntu 20. I cannot figure out how to get the version of CUPS, but the test environment I now have includes:
Ghostscript 9.50 Evince 3.36.7 Cairo 1.16.0 wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 LibreOffice 6.4.6.2 Okular 1.9.3 I reran all tests indicated in this report, today 17 December 2020, with the system and products at the levels indicated. With one exception, all tests now work. The exception is wkhtmltopdf, which is NOT addressed in this original bug report. If anyone wishes to issue a bug report against that product, it will obviously be a separate matter. - - - - - I installed "cups-pdf" on my Ubuntu system. Using LibreOffice, I reloaded the test ODT file. I created: 1) PDF output using the cups-pdf (aka "PDF") printer. In this environment all worked correctly. That is, all text was selectable in the viewers (Okular, Evince), and all selected text pasted correctly into VIM. 2) LibreOffice direct export of PDF. All worked correctly Using Brave (Chromium) browser, I loaded the HTML test file. 1) Printing from Brave using cups-pdf seemed to work. The first time I failed to notice that the output was landscape. Of course, this information was not useable. I changed to Portrait, and output was correct. All text selected in PDF viewer(s) and all pasted correctly in VIM. 2) From Brave, I selected the "save as PDF". All output was correct. When the HTML was tested with wkhtmltopdf, the output appeared odd. A check of the PDF file showed that that tool had replaced one font with Dingbats. The text did not appear correctly in the PDF viewers, but when copied and pasted into VIM, the original roman text was present and correct. The selection of Dingbats seems odd. HOWEVER, this bug report is not intended to be a report on the wkhtmltopdf command. I consider this issue to be closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1778988 Title: After PDF Files created by cups-pdf, cannot extract text from them To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/1778988/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
