Chris,
Thanks for sharing more details about how things work in the CIDFont
department. My understanding grows, but I guess I still need to learn a
lot, at least to the level of detail needed to create the application I
have in mind :-)
Till,
I consulted your earlier post on the subject at
https
Chris, Till, thanks for putting me on track.
I get the picture more clearly now. Although, I am a bit in the dark how
the CIDFonts turn up. To my understanding the PDF produced for printing
can't contain CIDFonts, since (as Chris explained) they are an exclusive
PostScript construct. So, it must b
I am sorry, but my initial report was not fully accurate. When preparing
the files you asked for, I discovered some more details.
Ubuntu 11.10 and 10.04 do NOT differ in the way 'gedit' prints. Both
produce PS files that result in non-searchable PDFs (generated with
`ps2pdf`). See the files 'print
Public bug reported:
In Ubuntu 10.04 (GPL Ghostscript 8.71) cups-pdf delivers searchable PDFs,
containing text that can neatly be copied and pasted.
In Ubuntu 11.10 (GPL Ghostscript 9.04) this feature is gone. PDFs cannot be
searched, and a copy/paste produces garbage text.
I experimen
