Producing pdf files with copyable text

[Paul Smith]

On 8/12/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks to all for your help and patience. The problem is finally solved!
> >
> > The cause of the problem was the fact that I had msttcorefonts
> > installed. After I removed them, I could produce a pdf file with
> > copyable text from
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org
> >
> > I have to do an inspection to see whether I have other superfluous
> > fonts installed. Could someone please tell me the minimal set of fonts
> > that one should have installed to have F7 working fine?
>
> I have just noticed that web-pages shown on Firefox with Liberation
> Fonts are transformed by ps2pdf in pdf files with non-copyable text.
> Any workaround?

To see the problem that I am now mentioning, please try to produce a
pdf of the GMail frontpage:

www.gmail.com

which is rendered on Firefox with Liberation Fonts, in case you have
them installed.

Paul