Bug#425405: marked as done (ps2pdf: produces unsearchable PDFs when given unusual fonts)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #425405,
regarding ps2pdf: produces unsearchable PDFs when given unusual fonts
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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: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro
(charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii cupsys 1.2.11-2 Common UNIX
Printing System(tm) -
ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The
Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C
Library: Shared libraries
cups-pdf recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Btw, I notice that this bug was filed ages ago against CUPS-PDF
2.4.2-3 which dates back from 2007.
The oldest supported release (oldoldstable) has 2.6.1-22 which dates
back from 2016.
All newer Debian releases ship with some 3.0.1 package.
I am thus closing this bug. Feel free to re-open it if the issue still
applies to current packages.
Martin-Éric
ma 27. syysk. 2021 klo 14.26 Martin-Éric Racine
(martin-eric.racine@iki.fi) kirjoitti:
>
> Does this issue still apply to what currently is in Bullseye?
>
> Martin-Éric
>
> pe 4. kesäk. 2021 klo 10.30 Jonas Smedegaard (jonas@jones.dk) kirjoitti:
> >
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > Quoting Jonathan Nieder (2021-06-04 04:27:16)
> > > Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > I agree that this is unlikely a bug in Ghostscript.
> > > >
> > > > The test PDF provided by Jonathan Nieder _is_ searchable with Evince
> > > > 3.38.2-1.
> > > >
> > > > If same file was not searchable with Evince available in January
> > > > 2011, then the issue might be the encoding of the strings in the
> > > > PDF, or it might be something else that confused that older release
> > > > of Evince.
> > > >
> > > > But that test file was produced by LibreOffice. I would expect that
> > > > a file generated by cups-pdf would instead have cups-pdf as creator
> > > > in the metadata.
> > > >
> > > > I therefore suspect that the test PDF file should be ignored for
> > > > this issue, and that the originally reported issue is a different
> > > > one:
> > > [...]
> > > > For the record: If you suspect that an issue is in Ghostscript then
> > > > please provide the ghostscript command that causes this issue -
> > > > without that the only possible action is to tag it as unreproducible
> > > > and close it, which is not really helpful.
> > >
> > > This response is puzzling. The example that I produced was a simple
> > > postscript file and then a ps2pdf command that invokes ghostscript to
> > > produce this issue. I don't understand why you're insisting
> > > simultaneously that I should have
> > >
> > > - used cups-pdf instead of using ghostscript directly
> > > - used ghostscript directly instead of using a larger pipeline that
> > > invokes it
> > >
> > > since I don't see how those are possible to do at the same time.
> >
> > That last paragraph above was targeted others than you, Jonathan, and I
> > agree: _Either_ investigate as cups-pdf issue _or_ as ghostscript issue.
> >
> > Let me try clarify by rephrasing the sentence I suspect caused
> > confusion:
> >
> > If anyone still suspect that an issue is in Ghostscript then please
> > provide the ghostscript command that causes it, like Jonathan did.
> >
> > Sorry for my ambiguity, and thanks for pointing it out,
> >
> >
> > - Jonas
> >
> > --
> > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
> > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
> >
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