I got a nice automated email from sourceforge.net. An anonymous person had replied to the select text bug in “PDFCREATOR” and said:

You must go in the printers control panel and find the advanced options for PDF Creator's printer. Then you must go in the Postscript Options and select:

• From POSTSCRIPT OUTPUT OPTION –> Optimize for portability
• From TRUETYPE FONT DOWNLOAD OPTION –> Outline.

Now I can select text and copy it into another document. It still doesn't identify the fonts correctly but I can live with that.