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Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file)

From Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file)
Followup-To comp.lang.postscript
Date 2011-05-14 15:04 +0200
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Peng Yu wrote:

> On May 14, 12:41 am, luser- -droog <mijo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On May 13, 10:45 pm, Peng  Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I try to use pkfix-helper to fix the pdf and then run ps2pdf on it.
>> > But I get the following error. Could you please let me know if there
>> > is any other way to generate a searchable pdf file?
>>
>> > $pkfix-helper 0375.ps
>> > Reading 0375.ps ... done.
>> > Number of Type 3 fonts encountered: 0
>> > pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file
>>
>> That looks more like a "nothing to do" message than an "error"
>> per se. If we could see some of the postscript, ...
> 
> I forgot post the postscript. Here is it.
> 
> http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips01/0375.ps.gz

The PostScript file has been produced by a (?) DjVu application,
and id *does* contain Type3 fonts the glyphs of which are bitmaps.
But the file is by no means DSC compliant, so that is probably why
the pkfix-helper complains.

And, as the Type3 fonts in this document do not provide a proper encoding 
array, the PDF is de facto not searchable (the converted text looks like 
garbage).

Helge

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How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file) Peng  Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 20:45 -0700
  Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file) luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-13 22:41 -0700
    Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file) Peng  Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:36 -0700
      Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file) Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2011-05-14 15:04 +0200
        Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file) John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2011-05-14 07:53 -0700
        Re: How to convert this ps file to a pdf file w/ searchable text? (pkfix-helper: No Type 3 fonts were encountered in the input file) ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-14 15:57 +0100

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