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://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups- pdf/+bug/820820/comments/12 and implemented your suggestion for the PPD file. Indeed the cupFilters "application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 -" and "application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 -" do the job! Now, in my CUPS backend I read the environment variables FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE and CONTENT_TYPE to decide if the stdin stream is PDF or PostScript, and act accordingly. This approach produces searchable PDFs in both cases! So my issue is solved now. Next thing I want to do is study the PPD syntax to create a tailored PPD definition for my application. There is plenty of documentation for that, but possibly some issues will arise again. Of course this forum is not the place to discuss CUPS and GhostScript related issues: where is the place to be for that? -- Rijk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/942866 Title: Ubuntu 11.10: printing to PDF produces unsearchable PDF (contrary to 10.04) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/942866/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
