Bug#928738: printer-driver-cups-pdf Still Produces PDF Files that Lack Searchable Text and are Unusable with pdftotext
Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf
Version: 3.0.1-5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
In prior bug reports, users complained that CUPS-PDF or printer-driver-cups-pdf produced PDF files in which text was represented in image format, or was not searchable.
In a message posted
"Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:40:21 +0000",
closing bugs 658004, 813618, 847462, and 857165, there was a reference to printer-driver-cups-pdf_3.0.1-3, and in another message there was a suggestion that the problem is fixed in that version.
I have installed printer-driver-cups-pdf_3.0.1-5 (the current version distributed in Buster), and it appears that *whatever* is stored in the PDF files produced by printer-driver-cups-pdf, it's not searchable text. Also, when these files are processed by pdftotext, the results do not contain recognizable text.
This was not a problem with the cups-pdf version 2.5.0-16 in Squeeze.
I tested using Firefox 44.0b3 to print an extremely simple HTML page to the CUPS PDF "driver". (That particular ancient version of Firefox runs in both Squeeze and Stretch.)
Can this be fixed, short of installing a non-Debian version of CUPS-PDF-to-PDF or the like, such as that advertised at
https://github.com/alexivkin/CUPS-PDF-to-PDF
?
Thank you.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf depends on:
ii cups 2.2.1-8+deb9u2
ii cups-client 2.2.1-8+deb9u2
ii ghostscript 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii libcups2 2.2.1-8+deb9u2
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu5
printer-driver-cups-pdf recommends no packages.
Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf suggests:
ii system-config-printer 1.5.7-3
-- no debconf information
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