Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Michael D Schleif wrote:
> 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?

Are those PDF docs optimized for Acrobat 6 (as opposed to Acrobat 5)?

-Roberto

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