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Topic: Re: PS to PDF (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 6.0, Msg: 96287
From: LeonardR
Date: 9/12/2003 12:09 AM
At 7:45 PM +1000 9/11/03, p-pdf-beginners Listmanager wrote:
>Anybody knows why once converted a ps file to pdf I experience the
>following problem:
What program are you using to convert from PS to PDF? Is it
the latest version of that program?
>1) Trying to copy and paste text from the pdf to word/notepad/ecc
>copy some very strange characters.
>2) The file is not indexed from the website search engine.
Those both sound like symptoms of using a version of
Ghostscript prior to 8.0...
>3) Looking inside the pdf file code it looks like compiled and not
>in plain text.
PDF is NOT a plain text format! It is a structured binary format.
Leonard
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