wolfi wrote:
You _can_ select text and pictures out of a pdf file with the text selection tool in the acroreader, but that unluckily only seems to work with pdfs from Adobe Distiller, not with those I get from the 'print to pdf' command in the File menu of e.g. kword. This pdf appears to be nothing but pixel, or at least it's totally scrambled. I tried to copy&paste back from the 'print.pdf' file to a kword file -> only wierd characters.
I saw the explanation for this in man ps2pdf: (SuSE 7.1) The one current great shortcoming of ps2pdf is that except for the fourteen built-in PDF fonts, it converts all fonts in the PostScript file to bitmap fonts in the PDF file, and scrambles the character codes so that the output is not searchable. (Normally it produces 720dpi bitmaps, but you can change this using Ghostscript's -r option.) We intend to mostly fix this by the end of 1998. SH