Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Brian wrote:

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> Although it is a different topic
> 
>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066535/ps2pdf-creates-a-very-big-pdf-file-from-paps-created-ps-file
> 
> backs up your "pretty funny" feeling. KenS is a Ghostscript developer.

Thanks for the link.

- From a cursory look at the .ps I had that impression:

  "The problem is the paps file, it doesn't actually contain any text
   at all, in a PostScript sense.

   Each character is stored as a procedure, where a path is drawn and
   then filled. This is NOT stored in a font, just in a dictionary."

so paps basically "paints" the text. 

Yikes. I still hoped to be wrong :-(

> Maybe this new version does not fix mouse copying from a PDF generated
> from paps' PS but it isn't in unstable anyway. (Furthermore, paps isn't
> in testing due to a FTBFS).

Let's hope. In the meantime use a2ps (but I don't know how well that
handles Unicode/UTF-8). Perhaps paps's author had a strong reason to
do it that way.

regards
- -- t
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