Re: Font problems with pdflatex

[Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:

>>> You can use it, of course.  The disadvantages are still there, namely
>>> that you won't be able to use the text search in PDF files on words
>>> containing umlauts (because in the PDF file, "Küster" is not one word,
>>> but three: K, u+dots, ster, and a search for "Küster" won't find it)
>>
>> Ahh, is there a better way?
>
> Not without installing lmodern, or pts-cm-super from unstable (or
> however it is called), or manually installing the LModern or CM Super
> fonts from CTAN.  Or of course by switching to a different postscript
> font (texdoc psnfss2e).

there is also the cmap package,

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