Brian Potkin wrote: > Neil Ormos wrote: >> Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf >> Version: 3.0.1-5 >> Severity: important
>> Dear Maintainer, >> In prior bug reports, users complained that >> CUPS-PDF or printer-driver-cups-pdf produced >> PDF files in which text was represented in >> image format, or was not searchable. [...] >> I have installed >> printer-driver-cups-pdf_3.0.1-5 (the current >> version distributed in Buster), and it appears >> that *whatever* is stored in the PDF files >> produced by printer-driver-cups-pdf, it's not >> searchable text. Also, when these files are >> processed by pdftotext, the results do not >> contain recognizable text. [...] > Thank you for your report, Neil. Hi Brian: > Please post the output of 'lpoptions -p PDF' ############################################################ copies=1 device-uri=cups-pdf:/ finishings=3 job-cancel-after=10800 job-hold-until=no-hold job-priority=50 job-sheets=none,none marker-change-time=0 number-up=1 printer-commands=AutoConfigure,Clean,PrintSelfTestPage printer-info=PDF printer-is-accepting-jobs=true printer-is-shared=false printer-location printer-make-and-model='Generic CUPS-PDF Printer' printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1557509283 printer-state-reasons=none printer-type=10678348 printer-uri-supported=ipp://localhost/printers/PDF ############################################################ > and, for a printed HTML > page, what 'pdfinfo <PDF_file> gives. Results of pdfinfo on the file produced on a system running Stretch: ############################################################ Title: (file:///home/uuu/zzz-scratch-0510-2/foo1.html) Author: (uuu) Creator: GPL Ghostscript 926 (ps2write) Producer: GPL Ghostscript 9.26 CreationDate: Fri May 10 12:28:03 2019 CDT ModDate: Fri May 10 12:28:03 2019 CDT Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Page rot: 0 File size: 12485 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4 ############################################################ Results of pdfinfo on the file produced on a system running Squeeze: ############################################################ Title: file:///home/uuu/zzz-scratch-0510-4/foo1.html Producer: pdftopdf CreationDate: Fri May 10 12:31:43 2019 CDT ModDate: Fri May 10 12:31:43 2019 CDT Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Page rot: 0 File size: 8922 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 ############################################################ Best regards, --Neil Ormos