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| rkconner | Q: We are using gpcl (v9.22) to convert pcl 2 pdf -- resulting pdf file is not "searchable." Can we do something to make them searchable? | 22:07.46 |
| Eli | I was using PCL6 until today. Now, it freezes for me and another client. Is it possible that the software will no longer work? | 22:13.10 |
| HenryStiles | Eli: the software is well maintained and we don't expect it to stop working | 22:20.31 |
| | rkconner: probably not, usually a file is not searchable because the PCL file does not have a known encoding for the font. | 22:21.22 |
| rkconner | A known font encoding? Hmm. Is there a way to specify that thru an option, or is it embedded in a truetype font file?? | 22:22.17 |
| Eli_ | why would pcl6 conversions that worked yesterday no longer work today at 2 different sites? | 22:23.59 |
| HenryStiles | Eli_: is this a commercial product? | 22:24.25 |
| Eli | It is not the commercial product and it is not embedding any fonts. Just has a few escape sequences in beginning of the PCL and the rest is plain ASCII. I am trying to convert to a PDF using the device PDFWRITE2 | 22:26.36 |
| HenryStiles | rkconner: no the pcl author has probably specified an arbitrary encoding, so in your file a '1' might be associated with the downloaded glyph for 'a', '2' maps to 'b' etc. There is no way to that '1' is an 'a' without OCR | 22:27.15 |
| | Eli: I have no idea. | 22:30.11 |
| | rkconner: sorry I missed a word, there is no way to *know* that '1' is an 'a' | 22:31.36 |
| | rkconner: there are a few other reasons it might not be searchable, you can post a bug at bugs.ghostscript.com with file and command line, and we will tell you. | 22:36.00 |
| rkconner | So, the pcl has the font encoding that makes for a searchable pdf? I don't think we have any tricky mappings for glyphs, apparently if we send a pcl file thru a Window pdf converter it is searchable, but sending it thru gpcl it is not. Do I just need to find a properly encoded truetype font of some kind? | 22:37.06 |
| HenryStiles | rkconner: I would say the majority of pcl files can be converted to seachable pdf, if it works for somebody else I'd like to see the file. | 22:39.04 |
| | rkconner: can you report a bug? | 22:41.05 |
| rkconner | Sure, will do, thanks! | 22:43.04 |
| HenryStiles | probably won't get to it until tomorrow, I leave in 15 minutes. | 22:44.33 |
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