http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6416
--- Comment #14 from Byeongsik Jeon bsjeon@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.