ps to pdf and then to text editor

[Paul Smith]

On 4/9/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I print to a file, file.ps, a web-page with text. Then, I apply ps2pdf
> and I get file.pdf. However, I cannot copy (from file.pdf) the text to
> a text editor. Can one get a pdf file with copyable text?

The reported problem does not occur with Ghostscript 8.54. Fedora Core
5 uses the version 8.15 of Ghostscript, a version of 2004! Why is
that?

Paul