ps to pdf and then to text editor

[Paul Smith]

On 9/11/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher 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?
>
> If you are simply looking to get the web page's displayed content to a
> text file, can't you simply save to a text file (save as, and select
> text files for the type, then give it a .txt extention for
> convenience).

Thanks, Jacques, but what I really want is to be able of producing a
pdf file (from a web-page) with the possibility of copying text to a
text editor. Hopefully, Fedora Core will soon make available for users
the version 8.54 of Ghostscript, which does not display the reported
problem.

Paul