Running the pdf example produces a pdf with no selectable text

bla...@gmail.com commented:

Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run 'phantomjs --version'.
1.4.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. phantomjs rasterize.js 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jakarta&printable=yes' jakarta.pdf
2. Look at result and try to select text
3. Impossible to select text

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
output is a pdf. i expect to see pdf and ability to select the text.

Which operating system are you using?
osx

Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?
binary

Please provide any additional information below.
Are you supposed to be able to select the text for the pdf? If not then what is the purpose? Thanks!

Disclaimer:
This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #373.
🌟   14 people had starred this issue at the time of migration.

[thomasbachem]

m...@thomasbachem.com commented:

Same on Debian with the 1.5.0 binary. Tried it with several websites. That's a pretty big issue :/

[thomasbachem]

m...@thomasbachem.com commented:

This issue seems very similar to http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=886, where rendering with the newest static build of wkhtmltopdf leads to unselectable text, but using an older binary works well. May be that helps, since wkhtmltopdf is also relying on QtWebKit.

[veeneck]

veen...@gmail.com commented:

Using 1.6 now, this issue is still here, and doesn't appear to be one of the milestones for 1.7. Wanted to check in and see if anyone found a workaround?

[trainiac]

adkison....@gmail.com commented:

It turns out that phantomjs 1.6 running on Linux does output PDFs with selectable text. I can confirm that phantomjs 1.6 on Mac OS X 10.7.4 does not output pdfs with selectable text.

[wachunga]

david.hi...@pulseenergy.com commented:

Also an issue on phantomjs 1.7.0 on OSX 10.6.8 using the same jakarta example.

[andineck]

andin...@gmail.com commented:

I have got the same problem on phantomjs 1.8.1 on OSX 10.8.2

[andineck]

andin...@gmail.com commented:

I can confirm that text is selectable inside the PDF with phantomjs 1.8.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. It looks like it really is a Mac OSX problem.

[ragekit]

using an old version of wkhtmltopdf seems to work (like this one) http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-OSX-0.10.0_rc2-static.tar.bz2

[ragulka]

I can also confirm that running phantomjs 1.8.2 on OSX 10.8.5 results in text not being selectable and links not clickable.

[bruno-c]

OSX 10.7.5 here, same issue.

[ianpetzer]

There is a pull request for a fix here: #11509