On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:20 +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? Martin-=C3=89ric?= Racine
wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Volker Christian Behr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, this is upstream,
> >
> > I can reproduce this issue if you use exotic fonts in OpenOffice. Using
> > Arial for example the output is perfectly searchable by a PDF-viewer.
> >
> > I have to check why GS does not simply replace the font by some other it
> > knows (or what exactly is causing the issue, if not the font unknown to
> > GS).
> >
> > Martin-Eric, could you please re-tag this to 'wishlist' since it
> > technically is not a bug in CUPS-PDF (CUPS-PDF working as designed) but
> > rather in the conversion done by GS (maybe some additional option will
> > help).
> 
> Volker, since this is strictly-speaking a GS bug, I'm wondering if
> reassigning it to GS might make more sense?
> 
> However, one part of the report attracted my attention: the user
> successfully creates searchable documents when exporting to PDF
> directly in OpenOffice.  I wonder how their PDF implementation differs
> from the one used by CUPS?
> 
If they implement the PDF generation directly into OpenOffice, they
won't run into any unknown-font-issues.... as I tested: CUPS-PDF creates
perfectly searchable documents when a font like Arial is used.



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