Producing pdf files with copyable text

[Paul Smith]

On 8/12/07, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > and my cups-pdf only produces bitmapped pdfs.
> > >
> > > In the past, I've had mixed results.  I don't recall all the ins and
> > > outs, but the content created, and what applications I used, had an
> > > effect.
> > >
> > > Did you try creating a document with the ordinary fonts used in PDF
> > > files (Times, etc.), or ones that it'll have to embed or pre-render?
> >
> > I just print to a file as ps and then I use ps2pdf. I have just tried
> > this method with a OOo document written with Times New Roman, but
> > again the resulting pdf is bitmapped. The problem maybe located in the
> > way Linux produces the ps file and not in ps2pdf.
> >
> > > And what programs have you tried to print a PDF file with?
> >
> > Firefox and Opera.
>
>  Try to use Konqueror.  It has a Print to PDF option.
>
> Is that PDF text's copyable?

Unfortunately, Antonio, I cannot use the option "print to pdf" of
Konqueror, as I always get and error with it. I do not know what is
the cause of the error though.

Paul