[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 125150] PDF files are not searchable

[Philipp Sternberg]

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------- Additional Comments From philipp.sternberg gmx de  2007-10-17 15:42 -------
Well yeah I agree with Comment #14, the bug should be (re)opened against qt (at least as a whish), for qt's post-script driver is apparently the guilty part of this mess:
As stated in the mailing list thread mentioned in #12 (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=109064343317685&w=2)
'the Qt PostScript driver will not embed TrueType fonts as Type42
so if you embed TrueType fonts with any KDE application and make a PDF, the
TrueType fonts will not be scalable and will look BAD.' (and apparently the ability to search the text gets lost with this too)

For me the #12 worked out, I get less ugly pdfs which are searchable.
Anyway to work around all this (disabling the font embedding in qtconfig kaddprinterwizard) you can tell the program to be printed from to use a font which is not Type3 (TrueType) but Type1. However the program to be printed from must allow you to select a font, (as does kwrite).
You may run "kcmshell kcmfontinst" as root to see which fonts are of what type (Type 1 or not)

cheers,

Phil