Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> [2003:12:16:19:56:53-0500] scribed: > 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 No. As a matter of fact, my résumé on my website was created prior to v6, and I cannot cut-&-paste from that. -- 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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