[Bug 6416] wineps uses custom encoded fonts

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

--- Comment #14 from Byeongsik Jeon <bsjeon at hanmail.net> 2013-01-25 13:21:26 CST ---
Created attachment 43339
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=43339
This patch makes a useful text to be copied.

(In reply to comment #0)
> 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.

It seems that this patch works.
I do not have sufficient knowledge about the ps or pdf specification.
So, I want someone to create a complete patch.

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