On 11/12/2010 12:00 PM Brett Bowman said...
FATAL PDF disallows copying
I ran into something like this about six months ago. IIRC, I was able to detect this setting (using reportlab I think), but a quick look to rediscover what I did specifically didn't yield anything useful.
I'm pretty sure if I had the time I'd get back to what I found last time. YMMV, Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list