Bug#425405: Impossible to do research in PDF documents
Package: cups-pdf Version: 2.4.2-3 Severity: important Hi All, I have found that the pdf output from cups-pdf is perfectely readable but you cannot perform researches in it (i.e: if in the document is present the word "donald" and you search for it there is no result (tested with kpdf and Acrobat Reader). I've done this trial using an openoffice document and converting it using both cups-pdf and the internal pdf converter of OpenOffice.org. The output from openoffice works while that from cups-pdf has this problem. This bug is really annoying with indexing programs and when you have large documents. Bye Valerio -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.11 (PREEMPT) Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on: ii cupsys 1.2.11-2Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii libc62.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries cups-pdf recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#425405: Impossible to do research in PDF documents
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). Regards, Volker On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:14 +0200, Valerio Passini wrote: > Package: cups-pdf > Version: 2.4.2-3 > Severity: important > > > > Hi All, > > I have found that the pdf output from cups-pdf is > perfectely > readable but you cannot perform researches in it (i.e: if > in the document is present the word "donald" and you > search for it there is no result (tested with kpdf and > Acrobat Reader). I've done this trial using an openoffice > document and converting it using both cups-pdf and the > internal pdf converter of OpenOffice.org. The output from > openoffice > works while that from cups-pdf has this problem. This bug > is really annoying with indexing programs and when you > have large documents. > Bye > > Valerio > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid >APT prefers unstable >APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (1, > 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.11 (PREEMPT) > Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (charmap=ISO-8859-15) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on: > ii cupsys 1.2.11-2Common UNIX > Printing System(tm) - > ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The > Ghostscript PostScript interpr > ii libc62.5-7 GNU C > Library: Shared libraries > > cups-pdf recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-888-5766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#425405: Impossible to do research in PDF documents
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? -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
Bug#425405: Impossible to do research in PDF documents
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
