Re: A Round of Removals
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:57:04PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote:
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
>
> > Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > People will need and therefore try to get it anyway since some PDF files
> > > cannot be viewed using gv+gs (-> postscript error).
> >
> > Do those files work with xpdf?
>
> A more serious problem with using xpdf is that one cannot
> cut-and-paste text from xpdf, but one can from acroread (assuming the
> pdf in question hasn't disabled that)
Sure it does. It's just undocumented. =) It copies the current
selection to the clipboard when you press Meta-c. That particular
key combination could probably be improved on, since many people
can't create Meta very easily.
dave...
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