Created attachment 7373 [details] sample pdfs created with GS 9.0.0 and 8.7.1 Overview: The text in Japanese pdf created by pdfCreator (pdfforge) cannot be copied if GS 9.00 is used. Text copies correctly if GS8.71 is used. Steps to reproduce: 1) On a Japanese Windows XP OS, install pdfCreator 1.20 which is bundled with GS 9.00 2) Print a japanese text document from Notepad to the pdfCreator printer. 3) Open the resulting PDF and attempt to copy text and paste into another document. Expected Result: The pasted text should be the same as the text in the PDF. Actual Result: The pasted text is garbled. Copy attempted in both Foxit Reader 4.0 and Adobe Acrobat Reader X. Additional Info: The problem does not occur if GS 8.71 is used. The following two tests produce the expected result: a) Install Ghostscript 8.71 and reconfigure pdfCreator options to use this instead of the bundled 9.0.0. Repeat steps 1-3 and text can be copied correctly out of the resulting PDF. b) Downgrade to pdfCreator 1.0.2 (with internally bundled GS 8.71). Repeat steps 1-3 and text can copied correctly out of the resulting PDF.
Please supply the PostScript files used to create the PDF, and ideally the Ghostscript command line used to create the PDF files.
logfile showing ghostscript parameters when 8.71 is used: 2011/03/17 12:12:39: Ghostscriptparameter: -IC:\Program Files\gs\gs8.71\lib\ -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sFONTPATH=C:\WINDOWS\Fonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/default -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -r600x600 -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dCompressPages=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dConvertCMYKImagesToRGB=false -sOutputFile=C:\Temp\loremJPN.txt -.pdf -dEncodeColorImages=true -dAutoFilterColorImages=true -dEncodeGrayImages=true -dAutoFilterGrayImages=true -dEncodeMonoImages=true -dMonoImageFilter=/CCITTFaxEncode -dDownsampleMonoImages=false -dPreserveOverprintSettings=true -dUCRandBGInfo=/Preserve -dUseFlateCompression=true -dParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo=true -dParseDSCComments=true -dOPM=0 -dOffOptimizations=0 -dLockDistillerParams=false -dGrayImageDepth=-1 -dASCII85EncodePages=false -dDefaultRenderingIntent=/Default -dTransferFunctionInfo=/Preserve -dPreserveHalftoneInfo=false -dDetectBlends=true -f C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Temp\PDFCreatorSpool\~PS1E.tmp 2011/03/17 12:12:39: Time for converting [PDF without encryption]: 00:00:00:319
logfile showing ghostscript parameters when 9.00 is used: 2011/03/17 12:13:37: Ghostscriptparameter: -IC:\Program Files\PDFCreator\GS9.00\gs9.00\Lib\ -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sFONTPATH=C:\WINDOWS\Fonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/default -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -r600x600 -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dCompressPages=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dConvertCMYKImagesToRGB=false -sOutputFile=C:\Temp\loremJPN.txt -.pdf -dEncodeColorImages=true -dAutoFilterColorImages=true -dEncodeGrayImages=true -dAutoFilterGrayImages=true -dEncodeMonoImages=true -dMonoImageFilter=/CCITTFaxEncode -dDownsampleMonoImages=false -dPreserveOverprintSettings=true -dUCRandBGInfo=/Preserve -dUseFlateCompression=true -dParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo=true -dParseDSCComments=true -dOPM=0 -dOffOptimizations=0 -dLockDistillerParams=false -dGrayImageDepth=-1 -dASCII85EncodePages=false -dDefaultRenderingIntent=/Default -dTransferFunctionInfo=/Preserve -dPreserveHalftoneInfo=false -dDetectBlends=true -f C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Temp\PDFCreatorSpool\~PS24.tmp 2011/03/17 12:13:38: Time for converting [PDF without encryption]: 00:00:00:327
Created attachment 7381 [details] postscript file
The 9.0 release wrote ToUnicode CMaps which Acrobat doesn't like. The TOUnicode CMap is used to get Unicode code points for the text in the document, and it is this which is used for cut and paste. This was fixed a couple of months ago (4th January), and the current code produces acceptable ToUnicode CMaps, where the text can be cut and paste. I would recommend updating to the current release (9.01) or building the source in Subversion if you want to try the cutting edge code. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691862 ***
tested ok in GS 9.02, thanks for your assistance.