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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:38:41AM +0100, Brian wrote:

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> Although it is a different topic
> 
>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066535/ps2pdf-creates-a-very-big-pdf-file-from-paps-created-ps-file
> 
> backs up your "pretty funny" feeling. KenS is a Ghostscript developer.

Thanks for the link.

- From a cursory look at the .ps I had that impression:

  "The problem is the paps file, it doesn't actually contain any text
   at all, in a PostScript sense.

   Each character is stored as a procedure, where a path is drawn and
   then filled. This is NOT stored in a font, just in a dictionary."

so paps basically "paints" the text. 

Yikes. I still hoped to be wrong :-(

> Maybe this new version does not fix mouse copying from a PDF generated
> from paps' PS but it isn't in unstable anyway. (Furthermore, paps isn't
> in testing due to a FTBFS).

Let's hope. In the meantime use a2ps (but I don't know how well that
handles Unicode/UTF-8). Perhaps paps's author had a strong reason to
do it that way.

regards
- -- t
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  Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 04:00 +0200
    Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 17:20 +0200
      Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-20 19:40 +0200
        Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-20 21:10 +0200
          Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-21 12:40 +0200
            Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-21 18:20 +0200
              Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-22 07:10 +0200
                Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-22 08:00 +0200
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    Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-09-20 07:00 +0200
      Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-09-20 07:20 +0200
    Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-20 16:10 +0200
      Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-20 18:10 +0200
        Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-20 19:30 +0200
        Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-20 21:10 +0200
      Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-21 21:40 +0200
        Re: problem mouse copy/past from PDF David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-22 07:50 +0200

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