[Bug 6416] New: wineps uses custom encoded fonts

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6416

           Summary: wineps uses custom encoded fonts
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-gdi-(printing)
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: david at dklevine.com


The only way to print in wine is using the built in postscript driver. This
driver custom encodes fonts - this appears to be true regardless of the ppd file
or font, I've tried several dozen combinations. I rate this as major, but
critical or blocker might be closer to the mark: it makes wine useless for
producing pdf files because the pdf files contain custom encoded fonts making it
impossible to extract the text.

Try this. Create a document in word. Print it to a file. Convert the ps to pdf
using ps2pdf (I also tried acrobat distiller with the same result). Open the pdf
file in any version of adobe acrobat. Select the text and copy it to the
clipboard (same result whether you use acrobat in windows or linux), and past to
a word processor. Presto: total gibberish.

There is no work-around because current versions of wine do not make it possible
to load a different print driver. The criticallity is severe, since you can't
use MS Office under wine to create pdf files with extractable text.

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