Re: searching pdf files from a specific page onwards
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:54:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I'm at my VT520 now so can't try it, but I think in the menu's
> > there's a search dialog with check boxes as opposed to just the search
> > bar in thumbnails. If so, you can add that to the toolbar.
>
> What version of kpdf are you running? I am running kpdf 0.5.5 that comes in
> Etch. Options such as "find backwards" etc., are greyed out for me.
>
> > Worst case, you can go back to page one (there's a button to do this)
> > and run search then. I think that by default, it starts the search from
> > the currently displayed page.
>
> This is what I am currently doing. But it is a bit time consuming.
I'm running standard Etch amd64. As for going to page one being
time-consuming, I suppose it depends on the machine. It is terribly
slow on my P-II with 64 MB, but blink-of-an-eye on my Athlon64.
Doug.
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