We recently created several PDF files for our swim team.
I created some using PDF995,
and another person created some useing PDFcreator.
Of course the PDF files themselves look fine.

Later, in attempting to "copy text" from these files,
and paste it into a plain text email,
we discovered that there is a problem...

As a test - I'm using Adobe reader 6.0 to open them -

PDF995 uses Ghostscript 7.0.5 and it copies text and pastes OK

PDFcreator 0.7.1 uses AFPL Ghostscript 8.0
and the text it copies appears as garbage when pasted..

Tried with Notepad & Wordpad - both a plain text and formatted text -
results were the same -

Any ideas on what the differerence is between these two implementations
using Ghostscript ?

Phil Schuman wrote:
> We recently created several PDF files for our swim team.
> I created some using PDF995,
> and another person created some useing PDFcreator.
> Of course the PDF files themselves look fine.
> 
> Later, in attempting to "copy text" from these files,
> and paste it into a plain text email,
> we discovered that there is a problem...
> 
> As a test - I'm using Adobe reader 6.0 to open them -
> 
> PDF995 uses Ghostscript 7.0.5 and it copies text and pastes OK
> 
> PDFcreator 0.7.1 uses AFPL Ghostscript 8.0
> and the text it copies appears as garbage when pasted..
> 
> Tried with Notepad & Wordpad - both a plain text and formatted text -
> results were the same -
> 
> Any ideas on what the differerence is between these two implementations
> using Ghostscript ?
> 
> 

Were the two source documents identical?  If not, try running a 
side-by-side test using the same source file on the same computer on the 
same word processor.  In particular, the PDF's internal text encoding is 
also affected by the fonts used in the document (Type 1 vs. TrueType) 
and font embedding options, when using GhostScript.

You can inspect your current PDFs' fonts using Reader 6 by selecting 
File > Document Properties... > Fonts.

Another free PDF creator to use in your shootout is PrimoPDF, which uses 
AFPL GS: http://primopdf.com/

Sid Steward
http://www.AccessPDF.com/pdftk/

"Sid Steward" <sid@AccessPDF.com> wrote in message
news:10h2me8bb2h7o83@corp.supernews.com...
> Phil Schuman wrote:
> > We recently created several PDF files for our swim team.
> > I created some using PDF995,
> > and another person created some useing PDFcreator.
> > Of course the PDF files themselves look fine.
> >
> > Later, in attempting to "copy text" from these files,
> > and paste it into a plain text email,
> > we discovered that there is a problem...
> >
> > As a test - I'm using Adobe reader 6.0 to open them -
> >
> > PDF995 uses Ghostscript 7.0.5 and it copies text and pastes OK
> >
> > PDFcreator 0.7.1 uses AFPL Ghostscript 8.0
> > and the text it copies appears as garbage when pasted..
> >
> > Tried with Notepad & Wordpad - both a plain text and formatted
text -
> > results were the same -
> >
> > Any ideas on what the differerence is between these two
implementations
> > using Ghostscript ?
> >
> >
>
> Were the two source documents identical?  If not, try running a
> side-by-side test using the same source file on the same computer on
the
> same word processor.  In particular, the PDF's internal text encoding
is
> also affected by the fonts used in the document (Type 1 vs. TrueType)
> and font embedding options, when using GhostScript.
>
> You can inspect your current PDFs' fonts using Reader 6 by selecting
> File > Document Properties... > Fonts.
>
> Another free PDF creator to use in your shootout is PrimoPDF, which
uses
> AFPL GS: http://primopdf.com/
>
> Sid Steward
> http://www.AccessPDF.com/pdftk/

yes - the docs were created from the same Word docs -

here is a link that might shed some light -
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=771727&group_id
=57796&atid=485457

I'm going to look at the PDFs and see what is listed in the info area -