Bug#337084: tetex-base: latex/dvips/ps2pdf produces buggy pdf files

[Richard Lewis <debian@rtf.org.uk>]

Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> writes:

> If Acrobat Reader can't search for keywords in files generated via
> latex/dvips/ps2pdf

> To circumvent this problem, there are some possibilities:
>
> * use of lmodern;
> * use of cm-super (my preferred solution);
> * use of ae (which is a big-no-no if you have accented characters like
>   in German or in Portuguese, since the ability to copy & paste such
>   characters will be terrible, to say the least);
> * use of packages like pxfonts, txfonts, mathpazo or mathptmx.

There is also the cmap package
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cmap/

>From the README:
 It works for Type 1 fonts, and also for Type 3 fonts (including the PK
 fonts which are preloaded as Type 3 fonts into PDF) with recent
 versions of pdftex.