Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> [2003:12:16:16:43:11-0500] scribed: > Patrick Lesslie wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > >> > >>>Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-&-paste? > >>> > >>>Also, which allow searching for text and phrases? > >> > >>xpdf allows cut and paste. It feels funny because it is a > >>pixel-wise block, but it works. > >> > >>For searching, it might be enough to use pdftotext | grep <string> > >>I don't know which other ones allow searching. > > > >Ok, I take that back ... xpdf has a search button. > > Acroread also does both. But it is non-free. > > -Roberto That's just it -- I cannot get acroread (v5) to block-cut-&-paste. Yes, I know that it is possible to create PDF's without ability to do that; but, the *same* PDF's from which I can cut-&-paste in windoze, I _cannot_ cut-&-paste under debian. Is there something other than the text-select mode? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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