Re: question about Acrobat
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:24:15AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> > > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house
> > > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a
> > > proven advocate of free access to information.
>
> Fair point, but acrobat supports searching and xpdf doesn't.
>
> Much as I disapprove of adobe, I could not swap from acrobat to xpdf. I have
> hundreds of PDFs and the ability of htdig to index them, and acroread to
> search for text in them is an essential feature.
>
> If xpdf supported text search and provided whatever functionality htdig needs
> to perform its indexing then I would very happily dump acroread.
It appears to support text searches in the latest version. I'd still
like a bookmarks tree myself (big documents are much easier to navigate).
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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