[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3251: PDF export creates a PDF with strange text encoding (or something)

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#3251: PDF export creates a PDF with strange text encoding (or something)
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   Reporter:  Alister                          |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                              |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  minor: annoyance                 |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Printing                         |            Version:  Trunk        
   Keywords:  PDF, Language, Export, Composer  |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  Windows                          |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                |  
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 In the print composer add something with text (a label, an attribute table
 or a map including a layer with labels), and export as PDF.
 Open the PDF in Adobe reader, select and copy some text, and paste it into
 a text editor: rather than text you will see squares or something.

 I thought that changing the "Writing System" setting in the "Select font"
 dialogue might help, but it seems to be ignored - if I change it to
 "Latin" and then open the dialogue again it is back to "Any"

 N.B.
 - Using Foxit Reader (Windows or Linux version) you should be able to
 successfully copy the text.
 - based on experience with other PDFs that exhibit this behaviour, I
 suspect most or perhaps all xpdf/poppler based programs will not be able
 to copy the text successfully, and some (epdfview) will actually refuse to
 select it.
 - If instead of using the PDF export function I print to a "PDF printer",
 the text in the created PDF ''can'' be copied successfully.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3251>
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